Kat r H Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services advertised on this program. Welcome to kat r H Garden Line with scip Ricter. It's crazy. Just watch him as many bats back again not a sign. Good morning, Glad you're off listening to garden Line this morning. Congratulations your cup of coffee or tea or maybe you just naturally are an early riser.
No, no liquids needed. Well either way, We're looking forward today to talking about the things that help you have a more beautiful garden, to help you have a more bountiful landscape. You know, our landscapes and our gardens are a source of not only value for our home, but a source of a lot of enjoyment and satisfaction for us. Whenever you create something that looks beautiful, there's just a sense of accomplishment in it. I've been working
in my garden, cleaning some things up a little by little. There was a couple of beds that I just hadn't gotten around to you yet and getting them ready for spring, and it's just nice looking out there. It's one of the few places in life, seems like, where you do a little bit of work on something, you turn around and look at it and you see the difference. You know, there are a lot of things where we throw ourselves into it. Maybe your job is a little bit this way.
You know, at the end of a day, you go, Okay, I worked all day, but I'm not really sure what I got accomplished today. But I'll tell you when you pull weeds in a garden bed, or you plant a garden bed, or redo the soil to take it up, and not much, you just look back and see the results, and that's
a comforting thing. I'm going to be talking about all kinds of things today to take care of, and I want to kind of tell you the time for our broad leaf we control our lawns is we're kind of there those lawn weeds that are broad leaf. They are blooming, they're setting seeds, and we need to get them out of there. You can approach that a couple of ways. Some people get out and just do a lot of hand pulling.
Well, if that's not your your gig, or if you got a huge area and you just don't want to try to go through it like that. Nitruss has a product that's an early spring green up type fertilizer. It's got the fifteen to five to ten. When I say spring green up type, I mean it releases fast. You put it down, you get it quick, and that would be Nitrophoss fifteen five to ten with the Trimac in it. Now. Trimac is a three way broad leaf weed killing product.
And when you put it down, you want to put it down on wet weeds. So turn on the sprinkler just long enough to wet the weed, put it down, sticks to the weeds, moves in, does the trick. That's how that works. After about a day watered in, get that fifteen five to ten in the soil and kick those turf grass plants into high gear. As it's warming up, they're ready to go. Where do you get it? Well, you can get fifteen five ten with trimec by Nitrofosh.
You can get it at Plantation Ace Hardware out there in Katie, Texas, Hiding and feed on. Stubner Airline has it and Bearings Hardware. Both the Bissinette and the Westheimer stores had that Trimeac fifteen to five to ten available for you. I I working out in the lawn area right now. My lawn is all dirt. I think I mentioned this more than once on the
show, but last year took a major hammer on my lawn. I took a little trip away, and I had the trifecta of drought because irrigation didn't come on for some reason, the chinchbugs and take all root rot, and those three together just basically rent it a mass very low grass left not worth trying to keep and bring back. So that whole thing has been renovated. I've got put some sandaloam soil down, mixing it in with what I've got.
That's what I'll be doing on Monday and then Tuesday planting grass. And I've got several I'm trying. You know, for me, everything's an experiment because I want to learn, I want to have some hands on so I'm trying some different things. A couple of types of Saint Augustine, a couple of types of Zoetia in the backyard, and so we're just gonna get it all planted on Tuesday, And if I'm alive and well and can still move to crawl up to the microphone, I'll be back next next Saturday to talk
to you about that. If you are planting grass, you want to make sure and water it in well. And here's what I would do. I would number one, water the area just a few days before you're going to plant. Just get some moisture in the soil. If you don't already have moisture in the soil, then you lay your grass down and you water it immediately. When I say immediately, I don't mean two hours later. If it's a sunny, hot day, go ahead and get water on it.
As you move to another area, plant more. Just keep that sprinkler going. You don't need a lot of water, but you need frequent water. It's the opposite of how we normally water our lauwns, because that grass is coming in from the soil from where they grew it from the side company with just a little thin layer of soil, clay soil on the bottom, usually clay there. Sometimes it's different. And that's a very little root system,
and that grass has got to get a root down fast. But in the meantime you got to keep what roots it has moist So I put on about a quarter of an inch of water, maybe a half inch initially, and then if it were summertime and hour planting, I would say water in the morning, water in the afternoon, with just enough to get that little surface moist to keep it going. By the preplant watering. In other words,
I said, I wedded a couple of days ahead. As those roots go down, there's already moisture down there, so you're not trying to wet the soil eight inches deep or six inches deep when you lay your new side. But you are watering frequently this time of year. I'll probably water it once maybe twice a day for the first couple of days, and then once a day, just you know, a good soaking middle part of the day, and then if the weather gets up in the mid upper eighties, I might
do a little more often than that. After about a week you figure, okay, we're getting some roots going here. Then maybe go to a day if you haven't already gone to once a day. And then after about two weeks you figure, okay, this grass is getting going. You don't forget watering, but you're not having the water every day. You can back after every other day, and you just want it to hit the ground running. Can you get by with less, yeah, But will the grass be stressed,
yes? Will some areas die? Maybe your sprinkler system isn't fully efficient, and so where you think you've given a good even application, you haven't. It's just the way sprinklers work. So take good care of it. That way, When do you fertilize, When it has reached to take up fertilizer, that's going to be at least a couple of weeks after planting, you can begin to put a little bit on. I might use a little fast release at that time. You know, nitros has one called Imperial.
Imperial is a fifteen to five to ten. That's a three one two ratio. And the three one two ratio is what turf scientists from across the country really but certainly through our southern states, from Texas on across. That's what they have determined is the nutrient ratio that grass takes up the nutrients. And so that's why you will see fertilizers like nitrofoss Imperial fifteen five to ten and that kind of application, a light application, give it a little immediate nutrients,
get it going. After you do that, I'd probably wait about a month and then I start my long term fertilization schedule, the slow release fertilization
schedule. But initially let it get some roots and then give it something that's a little faster released to give it a boost, and then we move on to the other that's kind of a kind of a schedule for that in that Imperial You know, just like all night fross products, you're going to find them everywhere out in Channey Forest in Richmond, they carry the nitrofoss products up in Willis up at Growers Outlet you can get them. Or maybe you're a
I forty five direction of Tumble RCW Nursery's got night fuss products. You can get those there, including the fertilizers and other things as well. So getting that grass established. Now, if your lawn just has some areas that are areas that are dead, but there's little sprigs of grass or little sections of
grass in it, you can just let that cover back over. If you've got let's say, between two decent little plugs of grass that are growing, it can cover over about a foot by midsummer pretty easily if it has water and fertilizer, and if your lawn isn't struggling with a disease which shuts things
down. Otherwise you're looking at larger areas you're going to have to either put some sod in it or just resaiwed the whole section, which is the route I decided to go, and plus I wanted to try some some new types of turf grass. It's kind of a, like I said, an experiment. We're going to watch it and see. I've got some fairly some stuff that's been around a little while but it's just been proven to do well, and then some that's that's really brand new, and so we're going to see
how that goes. But however you go about it, this is the season to get that lawn going, get it in good shape you want to, and if you haven't mowed it yet, I usually on the initial mowing mow down pretty short and then that gets rid of a lot of the dead debris up on top, you know, so you've got dead leaves and stuff from the winter season. I put a bagger on at that time, especially if there are any weeds, because you want to capture as many of those seeds
as you can. Don't recycle clippings full of weed seeds. Just try to get them out of there and get them off the property and it'll do pretty well. Well. We're going to take a little break here. We will be back. Our phone number is seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. When I come back, we'll start heading toward your calls to see the things you have questions about, or you'd like some advice on take care of Thanks for listening to garden Line, by the way, and we'll
be right back. Welcome back in garden Line. Really far to visiting with you about the things that interest you in gardening. What are your questions? You got things about lawns, maybe things about the herb garden, or maybe you'd like to put in a herb garden that would be a good one. Fruit, trees, vegetables. We'll talk about whatever you want to talk about,
even house plants. We can do that to Hey, that's gardening, that's indoor gardening, so that certainly counts our phone number seven one three two one two KTRH. We love feed stores here on garden Line and Sprint Creek Feed up there in Magnolia is an outstanding feed store and they just keep getting better. They've really expanded their garden area this year bringing in plants. They've got certainly all the products you hear me talk about when it comes to fertilizers.
If you need anything to control pests, diseases, and weeds, they've got that. They absolutely have that as well, friendly and cardios staff always at Spring Creek feed I love visiting. That's up in Magnolia on FM twenty nine seventy eight, So all of you up in that area, just it's just minutes away by the way from Highway two forty nine and Grand Parkway,
so you need to swing by there and check it out. You'll certainly get all your livestock feeds and all the other stuff you would expect from a feed store, but you're going to find it to be surprisingly expensive indoor decorations and other things. It's it's a fun place to visit, allow yourself a little bit of time. Every time I go in visiting with the folks, I just I end up realizing, oh my god, I've been in here for a while. That's because it's fun. Let's got to conro We're going to
talk to Cheryl this morning. Hello, Cheryl, Hi, I was wondering. You know, I have my high business that I started in the tray and it's been about a month now. There all there may be a little more tall, and I'm wondering, what can you recommend as far as transplanting him to the next slice of What kind of soil do I use? Because everything that I've read says not to use garden soil, right, so I'm not garden soil, I mean cotting soil. But I'm not sure what to
Okay, Well, that's that's an easy one. I think a real simple thing would be be to grab you some jungle Land jungle lens product that night Foster distributes it, so it's going to be widely widely available. But get the flower and vegetable version. There's an indoor version and a flower and vegetable version for outdoors. I would do that. And when you get that material and you're gonna pot your hibiscus up into a larger container, use that,
but mix in with it. Nelson's Genesis Genesis is a six one four, six one two, I believe is the number on it. Anyway, Genesis products, let me find that right now, six one three. Thank you. There we go, six one three, and it releases the nutrients, it's loaded with all kinds of microbes, and it's got you know, the endo and ectomycorrhizal that connect with the roots and help make the roots more efficient. But that's the combo that I would suggest to use the jungle land with
the Nelson. Genesis comes in. Genesis comes in a little jar. You don't need much of it, just follow the label and mix it in. And we had some caller last weekend that was just raving about how how fast and well his plants performed on it. Okay, good because my least that I actually have now we're real pretty green. But now they're starting to turn
like a light green, and I'm afraid they're not getting enough patrious. So it's you know, I need to edit fertilizer and move them up to your next Okay, it could be that, but it also could be too much water. Be real careful not to over water them. Keep them, don't keep them soggy wet. Okay, okay, yes, sir, thank you so much for your health this morning. You bet you take care and good look with those. Send me a picture of them when they finally bloom someday.
Okay, I will do that, thank you. We that stage that stage at RYL is talking about where you've got a seedling and it's up. Okay, it's going now, don't leave it there too long and that container, move it up to the next one and give it a quality saw mix with a nutrient boost in it. And that that's why I recommended that to her. You'll just see those things. They'll sit there for about a day or two and all of a sudden, you're going, wow, they are.
It's like they hit the ground running and the the they'll say their roots or on the accelerator, if you want to look at it that way. That sure works. Well. You are listening to Garden Line and I am your host, Skip Richter, What do you want to talk about? Seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. I was taking care of the some herbs that I have and I we have an herb bed and in the bed we've well, we've planned a lot of different things over the years
in there, but right now the chives are going crazy. And it just reminded me chives, garlic chives and onion chives. But when they go to seed last year, I did not clip the little seed heads off, and now that her bed looks like a chive chia pet. I mean there is
chides coming up everywhere. So just remember your chives do receed. And so I'm gonna have to get in there and probably run some of that soil through a little hardware cloth screen just to get all those little chip bulbs out of there, because I like chives, but I don't need a whole herb bed full of chives. But boy, the blooms are really popular with pollinators, they really are. Pollinators love chives. That whole alien family is a popular
one. It's important, you know, if you want to attract pollinators, to plant things that draw them in. And there are a lot of great plants for that. I mean, I just go on and on and on. And when we say pollinators, we're talking about a lot. We're talking about honey bees, We're talking about native bees, talking about there are a lot of different creatures that will do the pollination for some better than other's. No, butterflies can do a little pollinating, but that's not their forte like
it is with bees. But anyway, pollinator gardens are a fun way to go. And you know, we need pollinators because if you have a vegetable garden, for example, some plants absolutely won't set fruit without pollination. So that would be things like in the cucurbit family, like squash, cucumbers, watermelons, candalopes, musk melons, that whole group of plants in that family. They have to get pollen from one flower to a different flower because they
have male and female flowers separate. So you always want plenty of pollinators hanging around so that your plants just do super well. That is important and it's easy to take care of them. You know. Another way we track pollinators is by providing water for them. And you don't just have like a swimming pool sitting there. They need to be able to get down to the water.
So you may have a bird bath with some little stones in it so there's really shallow edge to the water and they can get They can walk right down there without drowning and just get a little bit of water. That is an important thing to keep in mind as well. We're gonna now go to beat Eyes and talk to Dane. Well, hello, Dane, how are things? And beat Eyes? That skip's nice? Good say it again. I got three briskets on the pit for you. Oh my gosh, hang
on, I'll be right there. A good deal, hey, I was, I'm doing a raised garden, and I was talking to a place in the cells soil. It's a rose mixed soil, but they made the commet that it was not fertilized. I didn't understand that. And if I need to fertilize it, what would you recommend to put in it? What are you going to grow in the garden. It'll be a tomatoes, halipenias, onions, potatoes squashed, you know, the whole the gamut. Yeah,
and is this a pretty large garden day? It's four feet wide, sixteen feet long, okay, and about three feet high. Yeah. Well, you know there's a lot of you can buy fertilizers in the little canisters and there you have organic and synthetic choices depending on how you want to go. Microlife is an excellent product for mixing in for an organic. You're out there and beat eye, so you're going to be really close to Grimes County Feed
and they may have the canisters of microlife in there. It's been a while since I looked at the shelves inside. I think they have the canisters of microlife, but I know they have the bags of microlife. Then from a synthetic standpoint, again, just a good lawn fertilizer is what I use for most of my vegetable garden. And I realize, you know, we have a lot of different ratios and stuff, but in the absence of a soil test, I would just use a good term fertilizer for it. So and
there's there's a number of those out there. You know. If you fertilize your lawn with something like let's say nitrofos Imperial fifteen five to ten, that would be a good one to using the vegetable garden as well. Yeah, I use All's lan program for the fertilizing on the lawn. Okay, well what kind of what kind of fertilizer do you like to use? What's the one you'll recommend? I think it's not just sas well, we got it. Yeah, we have several nitrofoss on there. The spring green up is
fifteen five to ten uh. And then there is a slow release for the vegetable garden. I wouldn't use slow releases. I would just use, you know, the regular fertilizers just because you've got a short term crop uh, and so you want when you fertilize them, you want them get the nutrients and get that boost pretty quick, makes sense. Yeah, fifteen five ten impierlet's a red bag by Nitrofoss that would be one that you could use. And then the micro life it's a green bag as well. Wonderful. All
right, Well that's what I do, man, I appreciate it. All right. Say hi to the folks, say say that again. How does the good work? Thank you? Say hi to the folks that the roy's over at a Spring Creek feed When you're out there, we'll do all right. Take care. Yeah, Spring Creek Feed Center, it's it's a fun place. And you know that country beat Eyes and Curtain and Anderson all through that region. Spring Creek Feeds your hometown feed center. And they carry the
fertilizers that I talk about here. They carry a lot of other things for past diseases and weed management for those of you and king Oaks and your wood that that. Those are some lovely new neighborhoods out that way after towards Carlos, Texas. It's just it's easy to get too easy to find them, and they're going to have what you need when you go back. Let's see here. I am going to go now to Cyprus and talk to Terry. Hello, Terry, good morning, Skip. How are you this morning?
I'm good? How are you? Oh? About a B plus? I guess okay, I've got a real problem with clover. About a month ago, I put my early fertilizer, the fifteen five ten nitrofalls on it, and I didn't use the one that's got the weed and feed the other. Anyway, It's greened up real good. It's tall and everything. But I've got a whole lot of clover everywhere, and I'm just wondering, it's been a month, can I come back with that fifteen five ten that's got the
wed killer in it. Now, you you said you did not use that the first time, You just use fertile Well, right, I just use a regular fifteen five. That's what I've always used, and I've always had good success for it. But for some reason or another, I've just got tremendous of out of clover. Yeah. Well, if it's been a month, you could fertilize again. It's a little early, but not too early. You could. You could fertilize again with the nitropos. You were referring
to the nitrophus with the trimech in it. But you have to get the leaves of the weeds wet so it sticks. That's an alternative. Another is just to go in with a spray specifically to go after those. Either way you go is fine. I you know, six and one half dozen in the other it may be since you just fertilized a month ago, So maybe you would just go with a spray and then come back with something that's slow released to carry you on into the summer, like Nitropuss's Imperial Silver Bag.
Okay, and what kind of spray would I use? I would use Bonne Eyed weed Beater Ultra and do it before the temperatures get up in the mid eighties. Do it in the morning, but before we're up in the mid upper eighties every day. That would be a good one. Fertilo makes another one called weed Free Zone, and that that would also work fine. Just mix it according to the label and make sure you get just get the leaves wet. You don't have to drench them, just spot spray the weeds that
you have. Hey, I got to go to a break, but thank you sir for the call. I appreciate that. It's time for NICKI in the news our phone number seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Well, come back to Guardline. Hey, it's good to have you with us today. I enjoy talking to gardeners and answering gardening questions and helping you with By the way, Dane, whenever that brisket is ready, you can just drop some off here at the station. It's not too far of
a drive from bet. I was talking to Dane and I mentioned Grimes County Feed. You know, they're up there on Highway thirty in Carlos and Grimes County Feed is going to have everything you would expect the feed store to have. I mean you're talking about livestock food and dog and cat food, and from a gardening and landscaping standpoint, the fertilizers that I recommend, they carry in the pesticides and things. But they also have supplies for your pond.
You know, you get do you know ponds get weeds they do, and aquatic herbicides for weeds. They even do fish stocking. I believe they do it about twice a quarter. But you just need to stop in talk to the roy family and find out, you know, when are you going to do that again? They're two miles west of FM two forty four, two miles west of FM two forty four State Highway thirty. For anybody up in that region that needs maybe some stocking of your ponds or supplies, take care
of your garden and your ponds. They're going to take care of you, that is for sure. I wanted to mention today that I think I talked about this last week, but OBA, the Organic Horticulture Benefits Alliance is having the Soil Science Conference at the United Way of Greater Houston on wad Drive. That's Wednesday, April third, and then Thursday, April fourth, the program continues out at Nature's Way Resources. Now this program is it's gonna be amazing.
Doctor Tom Dishri is going to talk about energy levels and plants, how to manipulate your crops to bulletproof them against pest insects. And what they do is they use an instrument called a bricks instrument. What that means is it measures sugar levels, carbohydrate levels in the plants app and when you do a bricks measurement, it can guide you. Also, doctor Adam Cobb's going to talk about the latest in soul microbiology. Adams from the Soil Food Web school
now. If you want to register for it, go to obaonline dot org slash register, HbA online dot org slash register. There is a fee for these, you get meal with it, but either way you go about it, you just need to check this out if you really want to nerd out on creating and building a quality, quality soul mix. We're going to head out now to Manville and talk to Adolf. Hello Adolf, Yes, sure, good morning. I have a question in the larns to mysteria. Yes,
it hasn't been blooming very much. As a matter of fact this year, you're hardly at all. Okay, and they were small. I don't know what the problem is. It's been there for at least thirty five years. Okay. Well, with steria, if it gets a little luxurious, you know, lots of nitrogen kind of fertilizing and watering it stuff. Sometimes it does vines at the expense of setting the bloom buds. If you don't see many blooms, it's because not many bloom buds set on the plant going
into winter. So that whisteria plant is doing its bloom buds setting in late summer and early fall, and so that's a key time to have success with it. If you pruned during the winter, you're pruning away those bloom buds, and so that's another reason for reduced bloom on a whisteria. And then finally, as the shade grows, if it's in shade more and more hours of the day, you're going to see a reduction in those blooms as well. Okay, all right, yeah, in the beginning, I'm telling you
that they were just beautiful large and they actually look like grapes. Yeah, that's the other largeous plant. Yeah, it is. The other thing is uh, the blackberries bed. I would just use a standard uh terf fertilizer, but not any weed control in it, just fertilizer, uh and the one you use for your lawns. I would use it for your BlackBerry row. You can be a little moderate with it as well. Blackberries generally have
decent vigor. If you're in a very sandy soil, a little more fertilizing is needed to maintain that vigor, but in general doesn't take a whole lot to keep blackberries happy. Okay, good, What is that? Why is there bags of of soil for raised beds? What? What is that? What? I'm sorry, I've seen I've seen bags, as a matter of fact, about two of them. Two bags of soil for raised beds.
Okay, it's confusing. I don't know what that is. That what that is is a special blend of soil that you put in and you just grow right in it. The alternative to that is you would go and purchase composts and things and mix it into the soil that you have. But you know, if you if you want instead of that to just you know, create or create an instant bed, you would you would do it the way you were talking about there, Okay. And then water moon and cucumbers is you
can make a pat seed. No good time right now to do both of those. Hey, Adolf, I'm gonna have to run, but feel free to all any time look forward to you, Yes, sir, good luck with all that that. That sounds like a really good deal. Hey, if you've been to the Antique rosen for him, they're up in Independence, Texas, just north of Brenham. You really need to go. Antiq Rosenporium
is the kind of place where it's like you've entered another time. You know, the buildings, the pathways, the plants, and of course antique Roses. I mean that's taking you back in time. It's a beautiful show place, and I would encourage you to grab a bunch of people and go go out there and visit with them. On the thirtieth the Easter or on the thirtieth, they're having their Easter egg hunt, so just check them out find out more about them. Antique Rosenporum can tell you more about it. It
starts at eleven fifteen. It's broken down by age group on Saturday, March thirtieth, and every time you go out there, you're going to find a lot more information than you could imagine from both the staff and just learning about the roses. Do this go to the website antiqu rosenporim dot com or callum ninety seven nine eight three six fifty five forty eight. We are let's see
here. I'm gonna I wanted to Mary. I'm going to have to hold you until right after the break to have enough time to help with the question. But you'll be the first one we come back. For those of you that are interested in honeybees, I talked about pollinators and how do we attract pollinators? How about putting some beehives in the backyard. You can actually do that. And no that doesn't mean you walk out the door and the bees attack. Bees are very docile, but they sure do the work for you
in your gardens. Plus you get honey. What a deal. The Bee Supply is having classes. Those classes will help you learn about bees how to take care of them. You can go. The next one's April thirteenth. There's one on April twenty seventh as well. And if you just want to go and learn about bees, how about going to the honey Tour where you get to learn a lot and taste the honey as well. Vbsupply dot comvbsupply dot com. That's how to find out more. They're out in Dayton and
I can tell you this. Go see the indoor Observational high where you can and watchbees work. It is amazing. We're going to take a little break. When we come back, we'll talk to Mary our phone number seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Welcome back to garden Line. Good to have you with us. For those of you out in Richmond, you've probably already been to in Chenni Gardens. You know about it. I
mean it's a It is a showplace. It's a destination. People come from all over to go see that place because there's not anything you need for your garden and landscape that they don't have every kind of plant, I mean, and when you talk about the accessories and whatnot, they've got you covered. In Chenni Gardens. It's on the Katie Fulsher side of Richmond, So as you're heading up north toward Katie direction, that's in Chenni Gardens FM three fifty
nine that's the road. The website enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. They're open today eight am to five pm, Tomorrow ten am to four pm. It's always a good time to visit because they always have new selections of everything you can imagine. I mean, every time I go there, it takes a while to wander through. It's a beautiful spread out place, quality staff that know what they're talking about. They're not going to steer you wrong. Another reason I like to go. We're going to I want to go out to
Mary in southwest Houston. Now, Hello Mary, Hey, good morning. My question is regarding a rental property we own here in Houston that the large lot in the lawn just didn't get maintained like it should have during the summer, and so we just have a lot of weeds. And with the cost of Saint Augustine, I was wondering if fermuda grass seeds would be a good alternative, and if so, how do you do that? Will it's less expensive than sodding. But when you plant those little tiny seeds, they come
up in their spindly little seedlings until they finally get established. And in the meantime here comes the weed seeds as well, and so it's a little bit of a challenge to plant from seed, but you can. You can plant from seed. There are Finding the seeds of varieties is sometimes a little bit of a challenge too. I wouldn't do the old common bermuda, although you could, but I'd try to get something a little more compact. There's a
variety called Sahara, I believe that's still on the market. But anyway, are you going in and out? Okay? Yes, you can plant from seed. It's a little bit of a challenge to get them established because when you do, first of all, you're gonna have to kill everything and make the dirt bear and then plant the bermuda seed and hope that they get established before the weeds come right back. Wow. Okay, Yeah, Well we saw a product that has mulch and fertilizer in with the seeds. Would that
be a good option. No, I don't know what that is. I wouldn't. I wouldn't go that route. Bermuda spreads fast though. I mean if you wanted to buy some sod and cut it up in pieces and plant little strips of it to make your dollar go further, it'll spread pretty fast and you would just you would just mow it and control the broadly weeds that are coming into it. Okay, thank you so much, Thank you,
Mary. I appreciate appreciate your call a lot. Yeah, when it comes to controlling weeds, night frost barricade is your pre emergent, and you get it down ahead of the weeds. That's very important. Get it down before the weeds sprout, watered in, and it forms a barricade over the soul surface for grass weeds and broadleaf weeds. Now, if you were going to plant a bermuda lawn, you would not use barricade before that because it controls bermuda seeds. It's a seed, right, so don't do that. But
an established turf. Yeah, you can do that. And where do you find barricade? Well, all over the place. I'll tell you this specifically speaking, barricade is just widely available number of different Ace Hardware stores. For example, you can go to Ausbahls Ace up in the Woodlands. They've got that. Also Plants for all seasons on Highway to forty nine carries and you can also find the barricade as well as other night Foss products at Plants and
things up there in Brenham. I was talking about Ace Hardware. I'm going to be doing an appearance at Ace Hardware on April sixth, that's next Saturday. I hope you can make it. I'll be at M and d Ace on clear Lake, but at the same weekend. Next weekend for those of you down anywhere in the Wharton area, they're opening up a store on April fifth and sixth. Now, the fifth and sixth is going to be at the Wharton store. Okay, I don't want to confuse you and too much,
but there's kind of two things going on. On the sixth, I'll be at M and d Ace, which is in clear Lake, but at the same time those of you done in Wharton. They have Wharton Feed and ACE Hardware on rich And Road by the way down in Wharton, and they'll be doing their shindig at the same time. You know, when you go to ACE, you're always going to find anything you need. They carry it all Ace. You can just say ACE is the place because no matter what
it is, they're gonna they're definitely gonna have it. Someone's asked me the other day, where can I get Where can I get this aer ration you're talking about? And where can I get the accompost top dressing done? I don't want to go through all the mess and work and haul and equipment around. Well, if you are down south, down south and a little to the west, B and B turf Pros covers your region. For example, Missouri City, sugar Land, and then let's head southeast from there to Fresno,
Siena, Arcola, maybe down Iowa Colony. You were just heading down Highway six there Manville and as far east as Pearland. They'll cover it. Now you just need to write down this website. It's B B Turfpros dot com. Now the company is B and B. The website is BB turf Pros dot com, bb turfpros dot com seven to one, three two three four fifty five ninety eight. They are all about customer satisfaction. They do high quality work and they use quality products. They only use products and companies
that I recommend here on garden Line. They can do the aeration, they can do the compost top dressing, and they certainly can do both, and that is a huge thing for getting your lawn looking good, getting it rejuvenated. You know those old height clay soils. Well, when you compost top dress with aeration, you get oxygen in the soil, you get organic matter done in the soil, and it just rejuvenates very good for your lawn and
you see a lot of results from that. It's you know, it's not inexpensive having come out and do it, because you're hauling equipment, you're hauling compost and all kinds of things. But I'm telling you it's it's cheaper than doing an new lawn by far, that is for sure. And if you just want to see your lawn rejuvenated, that's what I would do. That's
what I would do. Spring fertilizing of our lawns in this season. Microlife fertilizers provide you that option for a organic fertilizer that's loaded not just with nutrients, but you've got the microbial content as well, and that is huge. I would say, if I were doing a spring lawn fertilization, which when I have a lawn I will be but I no helpe right now, I would do the six two four green bag for my microlife. I would also
then follow it with Microlife Humates plus. Now that has a four percent of the potassium in it, but we're really putting it down because it's humus. It's concentrated compost in a bag and it works over time to build your soil
structure and enhance the microbial content of the soil. Microlife humhs plus and the green bag regular Microlife fertilizer, which by the way, we talk about it like a turf fertilizer, but you can put the green bag on anything you got it just I use it on a lot of different things as well. If you want more information on these and other products from Microlife, just go
to the website. It's Microlife Fertilizer dot com. Microlife Fertilizer dot com makes it real easy, easy to find all the products, and boy, they have a nice selection, a wide so I'll talk about some others as we go through spring. They have a wide selection of products choose from. If you'd like to give us a call. We're going to be going to a break here in just a bit, but I want to give you the phone
number. You can get on the boards with Josh wall Wear at break and that way you can be up right away when we come back from break seven one three, two, one two five eight seven four seven one three seventore write that down, keep it handy. Who knows you may have a question that pops up in the middle of listening. You can just jump right on the lines and there we go. Have you been to RCW Nursery. RCW is that nursery where two forty nine, which is Tomball Parkway, comes into
Beltway eight. So it's real easy to get to. No matter where you are, you can jump on two forty nine, you can jump on BELTWAYA a lot of ways to get there. You need to check out their website. It's rcwnurseries dot com. They're open today from eight am to five pm and tomorrow from ten am to five pm. This nursery's been open since nineteen seventy nine. The Williamson family still runs the place. They've been advertisement guardenline for a very long time. I call them to get it, got it
nursery. If they don't have it, they'll find it. They absolutely will find it. They carry the fertilizers. You hear me talk about. They have the biggest selection of roses I've ever seen anywhere, and I don't mean just Houston, I mean anywhere. Pages of nursery options. They have trees that they grow themselves up in Plannersville. So you know you're getting a species that belongs here and that it's going to do well here. That is very very important. And if you buy a tree, you want to get it
planted as soon as possible. You know, RCW can get you set up with the tree, but you got to get that thing planted, and you want to get it staked too, so that it does real well and it holds, you know, stake it loosely so it can move around. RCW will say the products you need as you plant that tree to help it during its early growth. They have roote stimulators. They have the fertilizers like the Microlife green bag that I was just talking about they got all that stuff ready
to go RCW nurseries dot com. Well, here we go. We're putting another hour in the books this morning, our first hour. We will be here until ten am. So I hope you keep listening. It's dark outside, but you know, if your neighbor's lights aren't on, go bang on the door, tell them they're missing guardline and they'll rise. A can call you bless it. I'll be so happy, so so grateful, at least
in time. Maybe not the first thing this morning I mentioned the micro the Oba Organic Cordic Culture benefits Alliance Soul Science Conference that's April third and fourth. You can find out more at Oba o HbA online, forward slash or obaonline dot org, forward Slash Register. Guess where I'm going to be today and I hope you too. At CNA Mulch. They are having their spring Fling. It's down at Cenamulch on FM five twenty one and Rose Sharon, I'm
going to be given away just a ton of different products. Please come out, let's get some in your hands. KTRH Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services advertised on this program. Welcome to kt r H Garden Line with Skip Rictor. It's so crazy you just watching as wos again not a sign and credits. Welcome back to guarden Line. Good to have you with us today. We are discussing things to do in the spring. There's a lot of things to do to take care of in the spring.
Our shrubs are going to be starting to grow, so you need to get out there and be ready to do some sharing. The more you share a shrub, the densert is. That's how that works. That doesn't mean you need to share them every day. It just means that if you only share them once a year, you're not going to have the density that you would hope to have. But as new growth is about to begin, let that grow go for a little bit, not long, and then just go
ahead and share it. And what will happen is every terminal that you cut off, you're going to have at least two sprouts that come out from behind it, and now you have an even denser shrub as you go. That's true of the evergreen shrubs, which are the primary ones that we're sharing at that time. A while ago, I was talking about RCW growing their own trees, and I was saying, you know, when you plant a tree, you need to support it somehow, a brand new tree, and if
it's a well grown tree, it's not as wobbly. If you will in the ground. Sometimes you get these trees and I know how it goes. You're thinking, I'm going to get a good deal and buy some cheap tree somewhere, and the thing it moves at the bottom. Here's what I mean. If a tree is well grown when you put it in the ground, if you were to grab the top and pull it towards you, it should ben like a fishing pole. You know, a fishing pole bends up.
Further up you get the more where it bends, and then as you get toward the bottom, it's not bending at all. But a lot of times they instead, they're like they're hinged at the bottom. The whole straight trunk just kind of bends towards you when you pull on it. That's not all a well grown tree, really. But you can help a tree get established by supporting it. Now, the old way is to use the wires,
you know, and you got to buy wire. You got to cut off sections of garden hose to put around the wire so it doesn't cut into the tree limb. You're tripping over the wires because they're going in three different directions coming out of the tree. Instead just gets you a three sixty tree stabilizer. That's a straight stiff arm that grabs the tree and then it grabs a post. You just stick a it's made in fact in the end. You can put it on any kind of post, but you can put it on
a T post also. It's made for that too. And the other end that holds the tree is a rubber strap and you just strap it loosely allow it to move a little bit. That's very important. Three sixty tree stabilizers are widely available all over the place. Buchanans has them done in the Heights Arborgate up in Tomball RCW Nursery where Tomball Parkway comes into Belwa eight plants for all seasons on Tomball Parkway has them. Southwest Fertilizer, well, of course
they have them. They have everything Southwest Houston and Hare Sidden Gardens down in Alvin, they all carry this three sixty tree stabilizer. They last, and last and last. This is an investment that will be around anytime you need to get a tree steaked, or maybe someone in the family loan in your tree stabilizer to do that same thing. Makes it really easy. You heard me probably talking about jungle land potting soil, and I was mentioning the outdoor
soil. Someone was going to plant some flowering materials outside. They also have an indoor the jungle land water saving potting soil. Now, how does this potting soil save water? Well, it holds onto water because as these little crys in it, these little crystals are polymers that absorb many times their weight in water. And as your potting soil gets a little dry, the roots are growing up up against that crystal. They'll find it and grow up against
it, and you can draw moisture that's still around. When your regular other part of your potting mix, the organic part of the potting mix, starts to get a little on the dry side, those crystals are an ongoing source of water, making it a little more forgiving. And it's a jungle Land distributed product, so it's going to be easy to find. You know, whenever you're talking about doing any kind of an application of a product or anything
from nitroposs including this jungle and you're going to find it so easy. Go to Katie that Ace Hardware out in Katie, they've got it. For those of you living in Memorial area, Memorial Drive, Ace Hardware City has got it. If you're down in alvin Stanton Shopping Center also carries the Jungle Land product. It makes it easy to find what you need to get that job done. Hey, if you'd like to give us a call, our phone number is seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven one three
two one two five eight seven four. I was visiting with Jason's at Jason at Peerscapes the other day and you know, just talking to how are things going, what's up? And I'm telling you they are staying busy. They you know, when you do a good job, you do quality work, you stay busy. So if you would like to get some work done, and this could be a total rent landscape renovation, it could be just working in a specific area, maybe a little patio area in the backyard to get
that done, give them a call now. You need to call them now because a good reputable landscaper like Jason's at Peer Scapes, they're busy and they're booking weeks, if not months in advance some of these types of jobs. But give them a call now. Now something else they offer. I haven't told you about this before. They have a quarterly maintenance for the landscape beds. So what does that mean. Well, once a quarter they're going to
come. They're going to do trimming, they're going to do weeding, they'll fertilize, they'll check the irrigation system just to make sure things are functioning right. They'll do a neration. They can do that as well. The seasonal color changes. You know, the pansies that you had in the winter aren't for late spring and summer, so you need to have new color come in. And then they'll do mulching. All of that is part of the quarterly
maintenance for beds. So you sign on the line and say, look, you guys, take care of it, and you know they're going to keep things looking good now. Pierce Caapes, they've been around a while, they've been doing good work for a while. That's why they stay busy. Look, get on the phone and make a call. You don't have to get the work done right away. In fact, a good landscaper, like I said, stays busy, but get on the list so that you can make
sure and have your beds in top shape. Here's the number two eight one three seven oh fifty sixty two eight one three seven oh fifty sixty or just go to piercescapes dot com pierscapes dot com. That makes it really really easy. If you've looked out in your lawn and you see all these broad leafweeds, those are cool season weeds. So what are you going to do about them? Well, one thing you can do about them is you can get out there and hand pull them, take the weed and its seeds and everything,
put it in the trash and get rid of it. A lot of people aren't willing to do that. Another option is when you mow, mow low and get those weed seeds out of there as best you can that way. But another way would be to use a spring green up fertilizer with Trimec. And that's what that is exactly what Nitrofoss has created Nitrofoss Weed Control product. It's like a fifteen five ten fertilizer with TRIMEC. Trimec is three different
broad leaf we control ingredients mixed into one. You have to wet the weeds. Because you want the granules to stick to the weed. So just a sprinkling of water just to get the weed surfaces wet, put out the the nitrofosh product and give it a day or so, let it move into those tissues and then watered in to get the fifteen five to ten part done in the soil to help you out and night foss being widely available, is going to be available in Montgomery at Gem's Hardware. For example, a task a
Seeda ace has it, as does the ace out and Sinco Ranch. We're going to take a little break. Seven one three two one two KTRH is the number. Welcome back to Guardenline. Good to have you with us today. Today's a day to get outside and do some things in the yard. It's a day to pick up some good products to fertilize your lawn, take care of weeds. It's a good day to pick up plants to get those established. Any kind you want to go about, go for it, get
that done. If you're on Way two forty nine up toward tom Ol direction plants for all seasons. That is a place, it is well known and the people throughout that community love it. I mean that place is always busy because they know when they go there, they're going to get the plants they need, and they're going to get expert advice and listen. That is so important, you know, to go to a place where they don't know what they're talking about. You may buy a plant that really doesn't grow here and
they don't know. You may find a problem on that plant. Now, what are you going to do? They certainly don't know their products to take care of it. And plants for all seasons? Does I mean you walk in with a picture, you walk in with a sample? What is this? They'll say, here's what it is. You know you just break with that. That's not a problem, or yes you do, and here's a product that takes care of it. It makes it easy. Listen with your
plants. You're getting expertise. If you got a brown thumb, you got to go there. If you have a green thumb, they will make it greener because they give you the information and the plants and products you need. Plants for all seasons dot com where are they? Well, if you're going up Tomball Parkway, exit Luetta and it's just past Luetta right there on the right hand side. Two eight one, three, seven six, sixteen forty six. We're going to go now up to Tomball and talk to Alan.
Hello, Alan, Hey, good morning. How you doing. I'm well, thank you. I'm looking for a shrub that can do some sunshade that would have a flower on it. Do you have any recommendations a shrub. When you say sunshade you mean half and half or what? Yeah, I've got a shady it it's a long afternoon sun. But I'm looking with some shrubs in that area. Okay, We've got a number of shrubs depending on
the light intensity, that'll do pretty good for you there. If you get east four hours of sunlight, that opens a door to a lot more options. Generally when yeah, I do, oh you do? Okay, well, yeah, you're going to need a little more than four for roses, for example, to do really good. As we go into the shade areas, headranges or a really good shrub for bright shade. Now, and if it's hot, hot afternoon sun, you have to really be extra careful to
keep them moist. The head ranges can be an ongoing summer blooming shrub that looks looks really good. You might want to try that one Guardena is another example. If you have an acidic type soil. If not, yeah, when you fertilize fertilized with an acid loving fertilizer, make sure you have a good high compost content soil a bed mix that you're growing them in, you're
going to have success. I think with that as well. See I'm living for more of an evergreen shrub that will last you know at the Yeah, well, alias and in guardenia's camellias are all evergreen shrubs that are in a good bright amount of light are going to do okay for you. Uh. Now getting something that blooms all year, that's are all season, that's going to be a little bit more difficult. Uh see evergreen about like what about like red tips? Are they any that they're all years? They're a year
round plant, correct, right, but they don't bloom. Uh they have some issues that kind of caused them to fall from popularity. Uh. Another plant that can also get that same leaf spot is indian hawthorn. And indian hawthorne will put up with some shade, but it likes to have good sun and it has some blooms on it, and it's an evergreen that would be a possible. How tall is the all that type of type. There's a bunch of type. I was talking about the big old mophead types of hydranges
that are common. Listen, you're up there in the Tombol area. I'd recommend you just swing by Arborgate. Uh. They they're up there in Tombul, just west of town. Oh yeah, yeah, I go, yeah, I go. I go to them all the time. Well, if you talk to Beverly or talk to Kennon or any of the folks out there
and just describe they're going to carry. They carry a wide variety of shrubs, and they can kind of go, well, here's your options, and here's the pros and cons, and you get this munch of bloom out of this one and that much out of that one, and I would just let them kind of guide you through it. Okay, Yeah, Yeah, that's my that's kind of my go to place anyway. Well, good okay. And so, but you want to when you go home, go home with
one of their three bag completely easy system. It's the food for anything with roots, it's the compost product, and it's the soil product and all three and that sets it up to where whatever you plant is going to do better? What is that? It's their completely easy system, that's what they call it at Arbrogate. It's the one two three steps. So there's a fertilizer that's a fertilizer for anything with roots. It's a four four to three plus
calcium. They've got the organic soil complete and the organic compost complete and those last two have uh the expanded shale in them which helps, especially with clay soils, to keep them open. Oh okay, good deal. Yeah say that al if you listen to Guardenline at all, you know, I always say brown stuff before green stuff. So don't just go home with a good plant, go home with some soil enhancing product. Yeah. Yeah, I watched my everything I can from them anyway, So well, good, thank
you, thanks for the call man. All right, you bet, good luck. Yeah. Arburgate is they've got a wide variety. By the way, at Arburgate, they got this really cool new parking lot in back. Yay, you're not gonna park out on twenty nine to twenty. Just take Tresher Road. It goes around behind Arburgate and comes back into twenty nine to twenty. So if you miss it, just catch it on the other side of Arburgate. Go in the back, check out the parking lot. You're
you're really really gonna love that. I'm gonna go out to Pasadena now and we're going to talk to Eddie. Hello, Eddie very stiff, Good morning, Good morning. Hey, if I just had a question, I ended up sending you a picture last night via email. So I had a question about my lime tree. Yes, I did a buy lime tree last February for my wife from Buchanans and they ended up potting it in a big,
pretty, big, pretty uh pot. And initially when I got it, you know, the white flowers came out and I saw that it was kind of growing. But I think about last fall, all the leaves kind of fell off in a little I guess you can call a little leg from the ground cards coming up, and I kind of just left that grow. But the main trunk, I guess this is not really growing, and I'm trying to decide what do I need to do. Maybe it's root bound or something
else. Yeah, I looked at I looked at your picture, and you're not gonna like You're not going to like my comment on it. That tree is the grafted part is dead and what you're seeing is you're seeing the rootstock and it's a good picture, thank you. By the way it shows up. Well, that is a specific rootstock called flying dragon. The flying dragon, So you got two options. You can replace it with another one,
which is what I would recommend, go ahead and get that done. Or if some people will try their hand at tea budding or grafting and you got to go find the right kind of lime that you want, get some wood and get home, I would recommend just replacing it. But at this stage, all that's going to be is a very contorted thorny thorny thorny bush. Okay, all right, I'll go. I'll probably go ahead and replace it. But I guess what, do you know what might have killed it?
Because I was feeding it and watering it fine, it was good throughout the summer. Yeah, I don't know. You know, cold weather, a good coal snap can kill a plant. It could be that. I can't tell from looking at the picture. I just see there's no life and the original scion that grew from the graft, But I do see the stock from below the graft. If you follow that original one down and you can see the graft line and you have even one living bud above that cut off all
the rootstock, and you should and that bud should grow. Maybe there's a chance there, but from what I can visually see, I don't see living buds. Okay, sound good, all right, sir, Thank you, Thank you appreciate that very much. Yeah, that is a that's a common thing that happens with our citrus and stuff. Just more often than not, a little shoot will sneak out of the bottom, even if the top doesn't
die, it'll sneak out and it'll say I'm part of the bush. But you notice it's extra thorny, and you just want to go down and cut that off as close as you can get to it. Landscaper's Pride has been around for a while and they've been making quality products for your soil. For example, they have a Premium potting soil. It's a sphagnum based all purpose
potting soil for indoor and outdoor plants. It's got pearlite but also has color Star, which is a slow release fertilizer that'll feed up to three months. They have something called pot Dirt, which is actually organic certified soil It provides just that potency that you need for your flowering plants because it's packed with worm casting sand, vermaculi. It's got the nutrients that they need. So if you've got an annual bed where you're going to do some color out, this
color changes pot dirt would be an excellent choice for that. They have a rosemix. They have Gardener's Magic soil that is also high quality with nutrients added to it in the form of chicken pellet fertilizer April. Let's see Landscaper's Pride. Landscaperspride dot com. Landscaperspride dot com twenty seven products available at that website. You'll see everywhere you can get it, which is almost everywhere. We're going to go now to Ralph in Northwest Houston. Hello Ralph, good morning,
good show. I got looking at my butter beans. I put them out and they got a big venable Gordon and they're just not coming up and now looking an they're way in my box here that I got them in from Louisianna. But anyway, it's what they is not germinating the war. Yeah, they're not germinating. I don't know why. Here's what I would do, Ralph, do you have any extra seed leftover? Any actually, what any extra butterbean seed? Yes, I'm looking at them now. Okay.
I take ten seeds, soak them in water overnight and then put them in a wet paper towel, put it in a plastic bag and check it every day for the next three days. And if they haven't sprouted, it's bad seed. If half of them have sprouted, you got a double plant the amount in order to get the stand you want. But I think that's it. It could be coal soil, but it's not really cold soil. Butterbeans ought to be sprouting right now. Everythings come up with you. You've got
a good answer there, Thank you all, Thank you, sir. I got to bind it to be coming over from a little crosst my but I know going on how to it would get rid of them from coming over from it's mine, right, Yes, okay, I got like ten seconds. Look for a product called that has triclop here t R I cl o p y R. It may be called uh poison, ivy killer or brush killer. Whatever that'll get you going. I got it. I gotta run for the news. Turn it over to Nikki seven one three two one two ktr
H Welcome back to the yard line. What kind of questions do you have? You can give us a call seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Now's the time to get your spring fertilization done. If you want to do a little bit early quick, green up well, Nitroposs Imperial fifteen five to ten. I'll make it easy for you. It's the red bag Nitroposs Imperial fifteen five to ten. It's got that ratio of nutrients that you want to have success with your lawn. That's fifteen five to ten ratio.
That is what grass takes up and it does super super well. You can get it out there in Katie at Ktace Hardware. You can get it at Ace Hardware and City up in the Memorial area. You can find that in Fishers Hardware, both the one on Southmoor down in the Southeastern area or Broadway over in Laporte. They've all got that Nitroposs Imperial fifteen five to ten. By the way, when you put the fertilizer down, you also want to make sure that your micronutrients are doing as well too, that the levels
are there. You don't need a lot of them. You just need a tiny amount, but they are essential and that's what azemite's all about. A micro nutrients supplement. Put on the fertilizer and then follow with the azamite in a separate spreading. Don't mix them together. Particle size is different. You don't get good even distribution, So don't mix them. But put them in same day, put them in different day, doesn't matter. Asmite is something
we try to do about once a year. You can do it more often depending on if you have a soil test and it shows nutrient micros that are really low, you may want to do that twice a year on it. A little bit goes a long way. A forty four pound bag six thousand to twelve thousand square feet as amite fertilizer. Excuse me, as Mite Texas dot com. Asimite Texas dot com. We're going to head up to Spring and talk to Robert. Hello, Robert are you there? Hello? Yeah?
Sorry, I've got a Saint Augustine yard and I've got patches of bermuda that are popping up here and there, and they seem to be getting bigger. I demo high and just wondering what options do I have to try to control that? Uh? Are they broadleaf type weeds that you're seeing bermuda grass? Oh? The bermuda. I'm sorry, the bermuda is in the Saint Augustine correct. Oh boy, okay, there is not a good over the
counterway to control bermuda and Saint Augustine. Mowing high is helpful. Making sure it doesn't go into drought stress, which gives the bermuda the advantage is helpful. The more shade you have, the better off Saint Augustine does. In comparison to bermuda grass. It can take shade better. But there's just not a product that goes in and kills one without killing them both. I guess I was reading a little bit about I'm not sure how you pronounce is f
fosse late two a herbicide. Can you spell that or f s in frank U f I L I know what you're talking about. That's fis ofl aide. Pis ofl aid is a grass only killer, but it'll kill Saint Augustine too, so it's not selective like that. Okay, I'll got the bummer. Yeah, it is about the only thing you could do, and the is the bermuda in a large area through the yard or is it kind of
localized? Well, it's localized to several different areas, Okay, So the alternative, the only option I see, would be to just kill everything in those areas and wait a little while. Makes you bermua you probably not cann't get it all or let it reach brout and then kill it again, uh, and then resought it with the Saint Augustine. That would be one approach. If you can say it's localized, you know, if it's here and there all through the yard, well, that would mean killing the whole yard,
which is probably not acceptable. All right, Well, thank you sir. All right, sorry to be the bearer of bad news. That is for sure that I have dealt with it myself. I can feel your pain for sure. Hey, do you need a quality, quality saw mix. I'm talking about something that helps your plants just to thrive. If you build it, you will have success. And Nature's way has already built it for you. They've got rose soil. Uh, They've got the leaf mold compost.
They have fungal based compost. By the way, they have something called Fungal Fridays. Every Friday, ten percent off the bag products, twenty percent off the bulk. Yeah, they can deliver for you, just give them a call. Nine three six three two one sixty nine ninety nine three six three two one six nine nine zero. It's important to get that long top dressed if you're having a lawn that's struggling. Especially when you put that leaf
mold compost on. You're adding a bazillion microbes in the process, and it makes it a place where maybe a disease like brown patch that you know, when we go through mild rainy weather, you could have some of that. It helps prevent that by just out competing in that particular area. By the way, when you're in Nature's Way, check out all of the plants at the head. They really have a lot of natives, but not just natives, So make sure there's plenty of room in the car before you head out
there, that is for sure. Hey Charlie in Cyprus, how's it going today, Well, it's good. I'm trying to find out it seems like we've lost a whole lot of our yard. We have a small front yard but a large backyard. We're in a coldly sac and I was just wondering about is there anything you can recommend. My husband did plant some get some grass and put it around the edges, but the inside of it where we should we mow it low? What should we do because it's all just looked
like bermuda grass or weeds. It's just it's horrible and green. Is your lawn Saint Augustine? Yes, okay, well the bermuda as I was just talking with Robert about if you got Saint Augustine and bermuda, you can't kill one without killing the other. So he oh, he said, My husband said, it's chick weed clover. Oh okay, mow it low, capture the clippings and don't don't return them during that time because those both have lots of seed on them. Get them out of there and they're going to die
out pretty soon anyway. The alternative to that would be to apply a product to kill those weeds, and you could do that, so just a matter of how patient are you on it. If you wanted to use a broad leaf herbicide spray, you could do that. If you want to use something like nitrofoss has the fifteen to five Y ten with the trimech in it if the weeds are wet, it'll stick to them and that works too. So
you kind of have three options there. Mow and throw it away and just wait, or spray it with the broad leaf killer something that kills many types of broad leaf weeds. Or use the fertilizer with the trimec in it, with the trimech t r I MC. It is a kind of off a blue bag. It's not blues nights, more of a teal kind of bag. Okay, so what's the brand name? Nitro foss not your fault, okay, all right, Well, so the first thing goes to it's low
and throw away the things. But the other grass is not that we've planned on the side. It's really not planning. We just brought a bunch of things from the grass place included on the it. So that's doing okay, okay, it's not growing in that area. Well, and let me just be real clear. If you mow low, then don't try to spray it or put a trimac nitro trim on it because there's no leaves for that products to stick to either way spray, So either spray one or the other.
If yeah, if you mow low, it's going to go downhill as your grass comes on. Hey, Charlie, I'm I have to run for a break. But good luck with that. That is that's certainly an issue that a lot of people are dealing with. Well, here we go. We're going to take a little break for some information. Seven on one three two one two k t R H is the number, and Marty, you'll be first when we come back. Welcome back to the guarden line. Good to
have you with us today. We are looking forward to any kinds of discussions you'd like to have to have a more beautiful garden, a more bountiful landscape. And I want to tell you if you are interested in a beautiful garden and a bountiful landscape, you need to go out to Warren's Southern Gardens. Out there in Kingwood. There's Warren Southern Gardens. There's Kingwood Garden Center.
Both excellent places to visit. And it's just color, color color. Someone called earlier about some blooms for a mostly shady area, uh, and it was looking for an evergreen shrub. And I was just thinking what would be a good thing, And then I realized, well, this isn't an evergreen, but a shrimp plant is wonderfully colored, very interesting. They got that out there. It does it does well in a quite a bit of shade, quite a bit of shady area. So what about Abelia's in the Sun
for a shrub, there's one called Kaleidoscope. You just got to go see it. It is beautiful. The new growth is just beautiful. The older growth has kind of a variegation in the leaves. It's attractive. Warrens has that all. I mean, do you need boogavillias, Yes, they got them. Do you want annual flowers? Do you want perennials like lantana, Oh, they have them as well. And if you've never seen the flamethrower red bud, just got to look it up. Just check it out.
Warrens has got it and it is beautifully like. The older foliage is kind of a yellowish orange color. The new growth it just has a beautiful burgundy red. It's really beautiful, excellent plant. So Warren's Garden Center, by the way, they are, their prices are have been dropped. They have new lower prices. That is just outstanding. And if you were going to plant a bunch of vegetables and herbs, go ahead, and buy a flat
of eighteen plants. That's an additional discount that you get for eighteen plants, and you can and matcham. You don't have to buy eighteen tomatoes. You can buy some tomatoes, some eggplants, some peppers. You see what I'm talking about, some herbs, warrens and Kingwood Garden Center. Go check them out. We're going to go to Fairfield now and talk to Marty. Hello Marty, good morning, skip morning. I have a little winding area.
It's a walkway in between a west wall of my house and a fence, and it's a kind of a very small, maybe fourteen to eighteen inches. And you said something about a shirt plant. I think I'm going to look at that, but I was wondering if you could give me some other suggestions. On the other side of the gate, there isn't a fence, and so I'm thinking about putting some sunshine lau gustrum there. Okay, but once you walk inside the gate then it doesn't have full eight hour sun How wide
is this area you want to plant along the walkway? Well, it's about fifteen to eighteen inches. It's not wide. I mean, I had a bunch of yeah, I had all my sweet potato mines in there, but I don't want to grow those again. Okay, I'm not sure I'm picturing it a boy. A photo would be helpful because what you're describing in my brain picture is jumping around. I can't quite see it. The shrip plant gets taller, you know, it'll get up waist home and it does spread.
So that's not something for a fifteen to eighteen inch wide Well, I'm sorry, there's fifteen to eighteen inches on each side of the walkway. Okay, at least maybe more, maybe twenty to twenty four. Yeah, I would go something that's a lower, a little more compact. There actually are some beautiful antennas that are very compact that would be good if it gets a decent amount of sunlight. I realize it's going to have shade part of the day from the house probably, or is a fence of privacy fence, Yes,
yeah, that so I would do that. A more compact salvia like Mystic spires might be a good choice for that area. Or you could do you know, some annual color just go with some manual color plants in the area, or you could do a walkway lining plant you know, theriope is an example as tech grass if the area is not too sunny, especially late day, as tech grass, which is white type of it's a mondo cousin. Yeah, I was thinking about putting my veggies back in there, but
I'm just not having success on that side. Okay. Do you think it's lack of sunlight? Probably like I didn't. I got a whole lot of vines for the sweet potatoes, but not a lot of produce. Okay, yeah, I get it. Well, those would be some things that I would try. I think as far as veggies, if you do things that are more of a leafy green, they're going to do good if they don't get as much sunlight as a fruit or a root crop would want. So there's yeah, well yeah, not for summer, but yes, leafy green.
Also, you might want to consider herbs. There's some herbs that do okay in a little bit of shade. So just another thing to think about. Idea, great idea, Well, the great idea. Thank you appreciate the call very much. Have you ever been up to Nelson Water Garden and Katie They are on Katie Fort Ben Road, So if you're heading not iten when you get to Katie Fort Ben Road, you turn right and it's just
a stone's throwaway on the right hand side. Now they are a garden center, so you're going to get all the different kinds of garden plants that you want. They also that especially they specialize in water gardens and water features. So do you want a little pond with lily pets? Do you want some fish like a choir or shabunk and things like that. They've got it.
They're disappearing. Fountains are so cool. Imagine a big, beautiful, gorgeous, beautiful piece of pottery and the water is spilling out over the top and down to the bottom where it just is recirculated back through the system. They created that system of a big pottery with a recycling water. They do that, they know how to do that. They are the place to go. It's a showplace and listen to this. You need to go just for inspiration.
You walk through and you just see all this stuff. It's stuff that you may not have been thinking I would like one of these, and then you see it and you go, oh, man, that's the answer to this spot we haven't known what to do with. Well, that's Nelson Watergarden the website Nelson Watergardens Plural dot com Nelson Watergardens Plural. They are nationally recognized as water garden experts. And when you get there you'll see why I love to visit. Today, I'm going to be out at Santa Mulch when I
get through with the show today, I'm heading out to Siena Moltch. They're having their spring fling and that means there'll be a lot of folks out there. Andy, you know, and you know Andy said good night Chidester. Andy Chidester with the Medina folks. Now, Andy is an expert on all kinds of things, just fun to talk to, very knowledgeable. She'll be there. We're going to have Jay White from Texas Gardener Nursery there with us. Also today, Luis from Heirloom Soils is going to be there. There'll
be someone from Nelson Plant Food as well. Now, Sanna is going to give away a palette of Landscaper's Pride to some fortunate person. I'm going to be given away five pound bags and Medina Growing Green organic fertilizer. I'm going to be giving away the Medina Plus and be given away the liquid Fish blend liquid. Seaweed has to grow. My gosh, the heirloom will be given with azemite, sent be given away all at Ciena Molts. What is Ciena Malts. That is the yard soil, excuse me, the soil yard that
has the brown stuff to make your green stuff thrive. What do you find at Siena. You find compost, you find rose, soil, you find mulches, you find rock, you find every fertilizer I talk about on here. So when you drive off the lot at Ciena Malts, you have got everything to make sure the brown stuff is set and ready for the green stuff you're going to plant. It's it's easy, easy to find them. They're down south, down south, just north of Roach Sharon on FM five twenty
one near Highway six and two eighty eight. Now cienamultch dot com. That's the website they deliver within about twenty miles of that location. Come out and see me today, Bring me some samples, bring me some pictures. Let's talk about what's going on with your landscape and help you have success. And I'll tell you this, the products that Ciena Molts carry are high quality and they work. They absolutely work. I when was the last time I was
out there. It was not too long ago. I was out there and I was just so stunned by the beauty of the rock products that they carried. And you know, you think about it's a rock. Oh no, no, no, if you want a flagstone, how many kinds of flagstone do they have? I don't know, but it's a bunch river rocks and all kinds of hardscape type materials. They'll get you set up for it. But mainly, we got to make that brown stuff good so that our plants
thrive. So they do very very well. If you did a spring green up at least a month ago, or if you have not done a spring green up. Nitrofiz Super Turf nineteen four ten, nineteen four ten. It's a silver bag that will feed your lawn for several months into the summer season or three months. I would expect easily two or three months out of the Nitrofos Super Turf silver bag. It is the right ratio. It's got a good amount of nitrogen, a little higher than you may think. Nineteen percent.
That's a lot. Well, you use less of it, but it's going to feed over time. It's going to gradually release those nutrients over It doesn't dump nineteen percent nitrogen writ down on your plant in one spot. Now, it'll feed gradually over time. Works super well, and you're going to find nitrofoss all over the place. One of the easy ways to say where
to get nitrofoss is just to go to ACE Hardware. ACE Hardware carries a lot of micro microface products like the Silver Bag, the Super Turf nineteen four ten. ACE hardwarees are widely available forty stores here in the Greater Houston area, and everything I talk about on garden line, from fertilizers and so on, you're going to find there at ACE Hardware, bags of soil and mults and whatnot. Next weekend I'll be out at the ACE M and d ACE
in Clearelake, and i'll talk about that more tomorrow. And also next weekend for those of you down anywhere around the region around Wharton, well, they're opening their new store down there, Wharton Feed and ACE Hardware, and it's on Richmond Road, North Richmond Road in Wharton, Texas. So I hope you'll get out there, say hi to them and check it out. But on Saturday, the sixth, I'll be M and Dace out on clear Lake. When you go into ace, you know you're going to go home with
everything you need to have success with your plants. Absolutely everything you need to have success with your plants. For those of you who have not downloaded my fertilizer, lawn care schedule, and my weed disease insect type schedule, you can go to skip Gardening with skip dot com. Gardening with Skip dot Com. That's the website. On there you'll find the lawn care schedule. What do you fertilize with and when it's synthetic, if it's organic, it's there.
When do you apply trace minerals? Pretty much anytime, but it's on there. About aeration, core, aeration, compass, top gust, mowing and watering, it's all on there with the products that you need. Now. The lawn pest, Disease and weed management schedule talks about insect control. When do chinchbugs and sod web worms and grubs occur where you would when's the time to treat for them? How About diseases like take our root rot and gray leaf spot and brown patch, it's all on there. How about weeds,
when do you put pre emergence down. When do you put post emergence down? What are the synthetic and organic options for each one? It's all there. Gardening with Skiff dot Com KTRH Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products services advertised on this program. Welcome to Katy r H Garden Line with skip rictor it's crazy just watching as us so many supposas says you. Welcome back to guarden Line. Thanks for listening in today. What do
you want to talk about? Give us a call. We'll talk about that. Well, we'll talk about that. If it's related to plants, I'd be happy to help you with that. Uh. If it's related to the fact that your spouse doesn't want to get out there and pull weeds or mow, or plant or do the other chores you haven't mind for them to do, I can't help you. Well, I can't help you with that, but marriage counseling is eight hundred dollars an hour. Horticulture advice is free.
How about that. We'll go about it that way. I went to one time when I was agrlife extension agent. I went to a site. Someone called and they had this alleged question they needed some help with and it did make sense. I thought, well, I'll go out there and take a look at it. I went on to take a look. When I got there, the husband and the wife were sitting there and one of them says to me, will you please tell the other one that they need to,
you know, do whatever. And it's like, okay, I didn't really, I was brought out here under false pretenses, so I can't. That's I did tell them that I said marriage advice is a hundred dollar I think I said one hundred dollars an hour. Horticulture advice is free, which they laughed at. Thank goodness. At least I thought it was funny. If you have weeds growing in your lawn right now, the cool season weeds. We're talking about chick weed and hendnt bit and clover and on and on down
the line. Well, turf star weedinator by Nelson's is made for that. You wet your weeds and you put out the turf star weedinator. The granules stick to the weeds, and when it sticks to the weeds, you want to give it about a day or so to soak into those weeds. It'll do that. The weeds will take it up if they're wet and they hold onto the granule and then water it in and get that product down in the
lawn. What you're going to find is you have really a cool chemistry combo in there where the nitrogen is in forms that are some available right now and some not available for a month or two or even three months from now. It can still be feeding as the soil warms up and the microbes become active. Turf Star Weedinator, that's the product from Nelson's Plant Food nitrogen in it, and again not all at once. It's gonna gradually gradually feed your plants
over time. Church Star Weedenator works well against broadleaf weeds and certainly is an outstanding product for having a beautiful lawn. I've tried a number of the Nelson plant Food products and I've yet to run into any that didn't do exactly as advertised and above. Let's go out to Huntsville. Now we're going to talk to Wanda. Hello, Wanda, good morning, how are you. I'm well? Thank you? Okay. I have about a four to five year
old per cemetry. The first year it didn't produced, didn't expect it to. Second year, it's got quite a few simmons on it, but it dropped all the persimmons before the even started to ripen. Last year it had more per simmons and we got about four or five off of it. This year, it looks like it's going to be absolutely loaded. What can I do to keep it from dropping? The persimmons are real bad about dropping the fruit when they're young. Once they make it a little further down the line,
they don't drop. But things that cause it Number one a young tree that doesn't have the root system yet to really support it. That is the thing which you're kind of getting past that now or getting close to past it. Number two. Excessive amounts of nitrogen fertilizer can do that as well. Issues and the roots, soggy wet soil, dry conditions in the roots, and some percimons. What variety is your percimon? I know it's not the
food, but I can't remember. Okay, some varieties can set without the pollination, but some of them do a little bit better if you have the pollination. I think yours apparently, since you've gotten some fruit from it, the pollination is not an issue at all with it. But I would house the sunlight is it getting plenty of sunlight all day? Okay, well, I guess it just needs to settle down a bit. Don't push it with
nitrogen fertilizer. They do pretty well without a lot of additional supplemental feeding. It's just that early on period when they try to set too many and then they start a boarding. I'm just kind of wondering out loud here if removing some of the fruit would help the other to set. And I've never heard that being a recommendation, so I'm gonna avoid saying, yeah, go do that, it'll work. But I do know that those trees know when they have too much fruit and they throw it, throw it off. Okay,
all right, well thank you? Oh oh, good luck with them. Isn't an astringent per someone When you bite into it, does your mouth pucker up? No? Not if they're right, Not if they're right? Okay, good, Yeah, well that's good. I love per Simmons. It ought to be a more popular fruit than it is. I love it.
Yeah, all right, And all I ask if it sets fruit well this year and you get quite a bit more, is just make me some percimon bread, drop it off at the studio and we'll call it even all right, Okay, thank you, Wanda. Appreciate that per simmons are great. I think the way to eat a per semon is just to get in the bathtub and take a good, old, soggy, baggy per semon, you know that, like a bag full of jelly, and go after it. And that way you can just clean yourself up when you're done, because they
are It's like eating a bagful of jelly. They are so so good. Hey, it is important to take care of your trees. It is very important. They're worth something to your landscape and they provide shade and all the other amenities. Affordable Tree Service can take care of them, and they do. Afftree Service dot com. That's the website, the phone number seven one three six nine nine twenty six sixty three. Seven one three six nine nine
twenty six sixty three. Martin Spoon Moore has been doing this for a long time. He charges one hundred and fifty dollars to come out for a consultation. He'll tell you exactly what he sees and what might need to be done if you choose to hire him to do that work, which I hope you would, and to be smart to Uh. That one fifty goes right into the cost of the job being done. So don't trust anybody with your trees. I mean, Martin knows what he's doing. Bad tree work is permanent,
it's for life on those trees, and don't do that. Get on his schedule for pruning or any kind of work you need done. Affordable Tree Service Afftree Service dot Com seven one three, six nine nine twenty six sixty three. We're going to take a break, Trish, she'll be first when we come back for the rest of you. Just still seven one three two p one two kat r h Hey, welcome about your garden line. What are we going to talk about today? Well, we got a few collars
online here and we'll find out what they want to talk about today. We're going to start off by going to Trish in Liverpool. Trish, where's living? Morning? Where is morning? We're in between Alvin and Angleton. Okay, all right, it's a little little sleepy, a little old town. Wow. I didn't think you were over there with the beetles somewhere in England. So that's it. No, not quite. Uh. I have a
problem with my tomato plants. I have a raised bed. And you know, when we got all that rain, it got pretty saturated, and the plants that I had transplanted, I planted them pretty deep because they were getting a little leggy. And now they're turning yellow. I mean that ground's still wet. Yeah. Is this it's been over a week. Is the whole plant turning yellow or just older leaves or just younger leaves. It's a younger
leaves, Okay. I mean I did take a picture of it because it looks like maybe they've got some kind of a fertilizing fertilizer deficiency or maybe I need to add some bone meal. And I wasn't sure because I'm really getting prepped the soil like I should have. Okay, well, just for right now with this crop. Long term, you need to get in there and really prep that soil, like I'm always harping about on guardline, But for right now, you need to make sure it's not over soggy soil. That's
the problem. If that's an ongoing problem, you got to find some way to let that dry out a little bit. But before the plant's going to pick up and go nutrient wise, you can just you can do a couple of things. You can provide a dry granular fertilizer that you wash in, or you could which means adding water, or you could do a liquid that you spray on, which is adding some water, but at least trying to get them the nutrients that they need. Not knowing what's going on, it's
kind of hard for me to tell you which way to go. Just something right in mind, though, is when you add organic matter and compost and you build up a raised bed, then you don't have soggy you do have every nutrients you can imagine that's coming out of that compost too. Well. I did put an I did do a soil amendment. I put a raised bed soil mixture in there, okay with it to help, you know, give it some uh substance because it was seemed a little sandy. Yeah,
I would just get a good quality fertilizer mix. You you might say liquid, either a liquid that you spray on, or do you do you garden organically? I try to, but sometimes you know, stink bugs don't allow that. Yeah, I understand my micro life green bag sixty four is excellent for tomatoes. You could try just putting some of that in mix it into the soil around them and water it in really good. And I do have
some miracle growth for a folier spread. If you've got it on hand, just try that, mix it and try that on the plants and might as I use it. Okay, what's on there? I would direct you longer term in other directions, but go ahead and try that. Make follow the label very carefully. Well, let me ask you one more question about it.
Okay, if I dig down, say you know, just about a foot away from one of the plants, and I dig down where I think that the base of the plants are, and it's and it's really like like a mud bog. Yeah, did I dig those plants up? And maybe? Uh, okay, would that be too much stress? Real quick? How long ago did you plant them? At least two weeks ago? Well, we got all that rain in an extreme situation. That might be good. It's going to really set them back. But if you find out it's
in a swamp, they're not going to get better. So I'd recommend that, Hey, I got a run trash, but good luck with getting those tomatoes back on their feet. Buchanus plants in the Heights is they specialize in natives that's why the actual name is not Buchanan's Plants, it's Buchana's Native plants. And you're going to find all kinds of things. Do you want to spring bloomer? How about partially hawthorn? That is one and not a lot of people are aware of. But Buchana's just going to have a lot of
things you're not aware another great bloomer through the summertime. Even the button bush, button bush, if you got a wet, saggy area, what am I going to do with this? I need a plant and I want to support pollinators. Button bush is an excellent one. And that's the Buchanan's Plants. Don't forget that. This next Saturday coming up here, the thirtieth, which is today, I'm sorry, next Saturday today they are having their Easter egg hunt, so you may want to get out there so your kids can
enjoy that. While you're out there, check out the Plumeria's. They got a whole bunch of the jungle job Plumeria is in. They got bougain villas and mandavilla, and mandavilla is one that's an underplanted vine. It's a tropical vine. It does so well Buchanan's is on East eleventh Street in the Heights. Easy to find them. Let's go to Oak Forest now and talk to Larry. Hello, Larry, good morning, my neighbor. This contractor used
part of my yard to do some to get to the neighbor's backyard. And when there, when they repair the soil, what should I have them do? It's kind of got compacted down a bit. Well, the main thing they need to do is air rate it to loosen that up. And I don't know if they're going to have an air raider machine that'll do a good
job. They could hire somebody to come in and do it. But that you know, you're just talking about a little pathway right that it's going through the yard, correct, So you know you can stick spading fork down in the ground, just wiggle a crack it open, you know, don't turn over the soil, but just for a little area you can do it like that. It's probably not worth bringing a machine in to try to do it
and then top dress it with a leaf mold compost. Don't let them put some old, chunky, woody compost with chunks of wood in it out there. You want a very finely screened leaf mold compost for that area. Okay, okay, that's that's the best thing. Putting down some microlife humates plus would be another good idea on that. So that's the purple bag from Microlife hum mates plus. You get that down in the soil and on the surface
even and it's going to help with your soil structure over time too. Okay, all right, Larry, okay, thanks much, all right, good luck with that. I wish I wish you well that that is for sure. Yeah. The leaf more compost Nature's Way resources they invented it, they created I mean, you know, it's been around in nature for since the beginning, but leaf more compost from Nature's Way is a product that they perfected
there. John Ferguson has been a leader soul scientists and leader in when it comes to taking care of the brown stuff, which is a basis for all success in plants. They also have the rose soil, which is a good bed soil for all kinds of plants, not just roses. If you want to get McCall nine three six three two one sixty nine ninety, they're up there on the way to come on the way to conro If you're going up
forty five. When fourteen eighty eight comes in. If you went left on fourteen eighty eight you go to Magnolia, just turn right instead and you'll go across the tracks and you're right there at Nature's Way. Got roses. They have a lot of nice native plants too. They sell stuff by the bag. You can go pick it up, all right. They sell up bulk. Bring your trailer. They'll put it on the trailer, or call them, have them deliver it for a delivery feet to where you live, and
you can get a bulk come out. So if you need lives, better to go bulk than just bags. But either way, they got you covered a Nature's Way. Okay, let's go out to Pasadena and we're going to talk to Frida. Hello, Frida, good morning. How can I help? I live in the condo and it borders a school, and last summer they put weed killer along the pencil line, and I'm telling you it went about a foot into my back little yard here and behind my condo, and
then the hot summer just inundated the grass. They finished it off. So that's the way I had someone come in and dig up all the weeds because that's all of us left there. And they broke up the soil and then the soil looked real good. It looked loose and black, and they brought in some sand mixed with some some some soil and then put grass, you know, the sod. So I am fortunately in that I have a watering system here in the back, and so they told me that water it once
a day for fifteen minutes, and that's what I've been doing. So I wanted to confirm that with you. And also I want to know what I need to do for weed killer in the future and to help my grass grow with you know, what fertilizer or what I need to do. Yeah, okay, well so you've got you've got some options there. As far as
the twice a day, that's good. I'd do that for about a week, and then I'd go to once a day for about another week and then move to every other day, and that way you're working your way toward just a regular once a week of watering schedule. That would be okay, I'm sorry. Would you repeat that twice a day for a week, once a day, once a day for another week, and then you're gradually weaning it off by going to twice every two days and so on. But the first
week's the most important. One second week, stay with it. It's not well rooted in yet by the time you get to the third week. You ought to have some pretty good root system that's down in there. Okay, okay. Now for fertilizing, I would go ahead and put down you can do one or two things. You can put down a Nitrophsi's Imperial that's a red bag fifteen to five to ten, or you could go ahead and move straight to the summer fertilizer, which is super turf. Super Turf as a
slow release fertilizer. So I think with new turf like that, I would probably I would go ahead and put the super turf out after a couple of weeks. Normally I don't start fertilizing a new lawn until it's been in for two weeks. Since superturf is a slow release, you're not going to get too much immediate nitrogen out of it, and you could you could cheat on that and start a little earlier if you want. It's the silver bag,
silver bag from Nitrophoss. Now, now you're down there, you're down there in Pasadena, right right, Okay, Well, you're not going to have any trouble, any trouble at all finding the super turf or the Imperial the red bag if you choose to go that way. Uh, it's it's easy, easy to find. All the Ace hardware stores for example, they are they're going to have it. So that's one way I go about finding Okay, okay, weed killer. Uh, you know, I wouldn't worry about
weed killer. Now, let's get that turf. Let's get that turf rooted in really good before we start thinking about weed killer. Yeah, some of the weed killers are a little stressful for those plants, and so I just wouldn't Yeah, I wouldn't want to just okay, jump on that just yet. Okay, so when do when do I start thinking about that? And when I see give me, give me a call it a couple of Are you seeing weeds in it? You shouldn't because it's brand new. Yeah.
So what you could do is you could do an application of barricade, but you don't want to do that the first three or four weeks after the turf is in. And I can go into more detail, but I'm just out of time on it. Hold off of the weed killer for now that turf needs to root in. Well, okay, we don't want to inhibit that. Okay, thank you very much. I appreciate your call. Well, here we are time for Nikki in the news, and I'm gonna pass the
microphone over there. Our phone number is seven to one three two one two KTR eight. There we go a little bit of Eagles music for us today. Don't forget Eagles, Oh my gosh, Beatles. Wow. Well, thinking about two things at once, I'm going to be at Cinemulch. Speaking of things coming up, I'll be at Cinemltch today after this radio show. Sienna is having their Spring Fling. This is the second time. What was there last year too, is a great event. I mean, they got
food truck. You know, they have all kinds of folks. I'll be out there. Jay White from Texas Gardener magazine, he'll be out there. You can meet Andy from Medina, and you can meet Louis from Heirloom Soils, and there'll be someone from Nelson's also out there. I mean it, it's gonna be a lot of folks. I'm going to be given away a lot of stuff, a lot of stuff Medina products. Oh my gosh grow
green organic fertilizer. Five pound bags, quart bottle of Medina plus three bottles of fish blend for medina, three bottles of the seaweed, three bottles of medina. Has to grow. There's a ready to spray, has to grow. You just hook up the hose and you take off heirloom soil. You get away samples of that too as well, and heirloom or heirlom and azemite also some samples. But bring me some sample of your plant. Anything you want identify it, Anything that's not doing well that you want me to take
a look at. Maybe it's a bug, maybe it's a spot on a leaf, maybe whatever. Just bring it out there, let's talk about it. I always love to meet the gardening listeners and Ciena Maltsa down south. Now you've been there before, Sia, I hope you've been there before, at least I'm looking forward to going myself today. Ciena Maltch is the place
where you get every kind of soil material that you might need. So for those of you who live down south, you know, we're talking about our cola and we're talking about Siona and that whole region out there, brasismin State Park is also out there. It All you gotta do is just show up, let's talk, let's find out what's going on. Let's get some good products in your hand as well. It's going to be a good day for that too, looking forward to it. Let's see, We're going to go
out now to Memorial Area and talk to a lane. Hello, Elayne, Good morning, Skip morning. I have been fought. We have been fighting days wower weed. I think it's also called scurvyweed, and it's also called Coma linga cyanea. And it's got that pretty blue flower on it, yes, wide wide leaf blade. And several years ago we just decided to go with the flow and we choked it out with Asian jasmine in a flower. Okay, and okay, it has come up in another bed that's rather virgin
right now. And I have I have had some success in Harris thirty percent vinegar diluted with water and that gets rid of it. But there's I mean, it's got to be very herbicide specific if I'm not going to go organic. And my question is if I get rid of the patches that we have now, am I going to be able to plant anything in there for a bit. Well, the vinegar should just be a temporary you're kind of burning the top of it back, so that probably something you I don't know.
I would you could do it, but it's going to burn back anything that's up there, so you would kill your grass, or you would kill a flower that you got it on, or something like that. So I would try to avoid that. Those plans are kind of I think of them as being caught between grasses and broad leaves. They've got the parallel venation of a grass, but they're they're not really true grass, uh and they have rhizomes underground, which makes it go back real easily, very difficult, very difficult
to manage. Products containing glyphissay can control that. That would be like a round up type thing. They can control it when it's really small, but when they get bigger they tolerate life as a pretty well. I mean, they don't like it, but it doesn't kill them. The products that have two four D and them, for example, that would do okay some degree
of efficacy from that. There is an organic thing called pell organic pel orgonic acid p E L A R G O N I C, and that would be a thing like your vinegar that you spray on and it burns the top back. But depending on the growth stage, the oldier this gets, the more problems you're going to have with it, And so you're kind of left with repeated sprays or hand digging or whatever. Just you know that once it goes to flowering, you got to get those seed heads off there too,
because that makes it harder. Well, is there any merit in just replacing the soil in the bed, Well, that's drastic. I don't think you should need to replace the soil. You should just you know, dig and maybe run it through a little bit of a screen, like a hard half inch hardware cloth or something. I've built a little two by four box. It sits on my wheelbarrow, and I just throw the soil in there and just shake that and then you then pick up all the roots and things you
get out and then dump that soil back in the bed. That's easier than replacing all the soil probably. Well, I know about the rhizomes, you know, because they just if you try to pull that weed, it breaks off, and wherever you break off, it's going to start again. That's true. Well, hey, I'm going to have to run on to some other questions and stuff, But that would be my suggestion for it. You may want to try, and I can't guarantee you this will work, but
it is a very broad spectrum. Bone eyed weed beater ultra, the one that says ultra, it's a spray, see what it does to it. It's going to have some things in it that should be somewhat effective. But I'd like to hear the results you get from it, because I'm really doubtful because so many things have been tried against it unsuccessfully. But thank you Elaine for the call. I appreciate that very much. If you're trying to prevent weeds in your lawn, barricade is what you do. It's a pre emergent
herbicide from nitrofoss. You put it down and you watered it in. You have to water it in because you have to move it down to the soul surface where it forms a barricade. Now, for those of you planting new sod, don't do the barricade before you plant the sod because it works on weed roots work and the sod has to get its roots down. But all of you with established lawns, barricade by nitro foss put down ahead of the weeds sprouting will be very effective. You can get it in Shannon Gardens out
there in the Richmond Rosenberg area, Shades of Texas. Up in the woodlands. We'll carry barricade and other nitrofoss products. Arburgate up in Tombol, just another place where you can get that product. I want to go now to
Katie and we're going to talk to Marcus. Hello, Marcus Hello. Well, the reason I'm called I've got concord grapevine and a seven grapevine which is kind of a wild grape, okay, and I don't know how to prune them, and then the squirrels get everything that they produce, okay, and I don't know how to deal with that. I couldn't begin to tell you how to prune a grapevine on the air. So what I want you to do is go to the Aggie Horticulture website. There's a section for fruits,
nuts, there's a section for grapes and vegetables. Just click on it, get into the grape one and start looking around in there, and they will give you some good guidance on as far as the squirrels. I don't know a good solution. Some people have tried the little organza bags. I don't know that that would even work, but that it just is what it is with the squirrels in our neighborhoods. But Marcus, I hope that, hope that helps. I got a rhyme, but I'll make clear our symmetry too.
Yeah, I know, I know, I have. I have my opinions about squirrels. Accent offer on the air. There you go, all right, Mark, thanks, thank you, thanks a lot, and good luck with that. I do definitely feel your pain. You've been listening to Guardline. We're going to come back after this little break. Don't forget. I will be at Ciena Maltch Ciena Maltch. That is going to be today from eleven thirty to one thirty. All of you done in that area. I hope you come out and see me. Sleep at the wheel for are
you on a Saturday morning. If you're looking for a tree, Verdant Tree Farm has an excellent selection. They also you know, pine palm trees as well. They have a number of different palms. You walk in there and say, hey, what's the hardiest palm you got? And they can do that, but if you want all the others, they they have a good variety of things that grow well. Verden Tree Farm has three locations now there
and the Heights where Yale and to Iten come together. They're down in the pear Land area on Broadway Street and then they're in West Houston out on Barker Cypress. You're going to find large shrubs too, like some of the hollies for example, they'll carry that. They do turnkey service. You pick out your plant of all the such and such species on their lot. You go pick the one you want and they tag it, they bring it, they
plant it, and if they plant it, they guarantee it. They give a guarantee for one year with the installation, and you need to planet right. They know how to plant it right. Verdant Tree Farm Verdant Treefarm dot com. I wanted to talk a little bit about something regarding the soil. Now you see mixes when you see soil for sale, for example, a bed mix or something like that. Heirloom soils get real specific. They have
a fruit berry and citrus mix for example. They have a veggie and herb mix, which by the way, is one hundred and nineteen dollars in bulk, and they do deliver to delivery comes at a cost. Of course, you can go to the site and load it up, or you can get them to deliver a supersack. Put a supersac on your trailer if you want. It's a cubic yard of soil. By the way, luis from Heirloom Soals will be done at Cieno Mulch with me today. Will be giving away
some of their products. So come on down and meet them and pick his brain. He knows a lot about various kinds of soil. Heirloom is widely available, easy to find, easy to find, works really well. Earlier I was talking about be Supply. I believe be Supply is going to be the place where you learn more about bees than you even knew was to learn. Every time I talked Paul and the guys out there at be Supply, it's just mind boggling all the different stuff that they know about bees. The
world of bees is astounding. They can get you set up for a backyard beekeeper. Do you want to do that? They can get you set up. They got classes. Maybe just go take a class and find out if it's for you. April thirteenth and April twenty seventh, or the next two classes. You need to go to vbsupply dot com in order to get signed up. If you just want to learn about bees, if you've got a garden club group you want to take out, or maybe maybe a homeschool group
of kiddos, oh gosh, they will love this. And they do a thing called the Interactive Honey Tour where you even get to taste honey and you learn a lot at thebsupply dot Com. I would highly highly recommend it one of the most interesting things that I have ever seen before. A little bit ago I was discussing RCW nurseries and talking about the different things that they carry. When it comes to quality plants, they've got you covered. The rose
selection is it's unlike anything you've ever seen. And boy, April is the big bloom and rosemont it's one of the best months of the year for rose blooms. But RCWI can get you set up with some of those Ramontant roses. That's your horticulture fun fact word for the day. Ramonta means it re blooms. Some roses like Lady Banks just bloom in the spring and they're done. That's still a great rose to have, but some bloom and bloom and bloom, that's what you want your landscape. For sure. RCWI can get
you set up. I think they have over two hundred different roses that they carry from time to time there at RCW Nurseries. They're at Tomball Parkway in belt Way eight. It's easy to find them. It's easy to get in there and get out. But now's the time to plant a rose bush. Get that thing in the ground, get it going. You take care of it good by watering and fertilizing it on a regular basis, and your fall rose show will be stunning. You can set yourself up right now for a
beautiful fall rose show. At RCW Nurseries, they absolutely just every time I go by there, I'm very surprised at the breadth of the things that they carry. That would include herbs and perennials and annuals and shrubs and native plants. Yes, they do have native plants and certainly trees, but today why not put a rose bush in that's a shrub rose. There would be a beautiful plant all the time, not just something that is for the cutflower garden,
something that is a landscape plant. RCW can get you set up. They'll give you the products. You'll give you. They'll say the products that you need to get that plant started, roots stimulator and a fertilizer and things like that. They carry microlife and they that's an excellent one for getting things started off to do well. Speaking of the microlife, microlife fertilizers and that
is plural. They have a wide variety of things. Do you need seaweed, for example, they've got the standard is the green bag that is the one for lawns, but it's also for a lot of other things. When when you go to microlife, you're going to find that pretty much every kind of plant you would want to grow, every kind of way you want to enhance it, they're going to have the products that you need. Say start
with that sixty four. If you've got acid loving plants, they have a pinkish bag that is for acid loving plants like blueberries, guardinas camille for example. They're going to have the supplemental sprays for folier feeding. The everything they have is loaded with micronutrients, and micronutrients are absolutely essential. It's also loaded with microbes microbes make the world around, They run the world. Absolutely droned
on about that the other day. But microhizal, fungib beneficial bacteria, all kinds of things like that. For your spring fertilization of the lawn, let's do the green bag sixty four, and let's do the purple bag humates plus concentrated compost in a bag. Two different products. Apply one, turn right around, apply the other one, and you be off to a good start.
For more information, all you got is go to microlifefertilizer dot com and you can find out everything that you want to know and where to get it too. By the way, they're widely available. Our phone number is seven to one three two one two fifty eight seventy four three two one two five eight seven four. We have a rare situation here where we had a blank board, So if you would like to call without waiting, boy, now's a time doll it quick seven to one three two one two five eight seven
four. Jungle land potting soils and that is with an s plural distributed by nitropost Fertilizer. Well, they have both the outdoor version that's the flour and vegetable jungle land. They have the indoor version with the water saving crystals. That is the water saving version of jungle land for indoor plants. Widely available. Plants are products for your plants. When we talk about nitrofoss products, we mean you can get them pretty much anywhere that you want to go.
Uh. You know, they have them up at plants for all seasons. They got a motor arborgate for example. All the Ace hardware stores are great places to get those kind of products. And when you're looking at making sure that your plants are fed properly, well, you're going to find a wide variety of nitropos for that. But if you're potting up some things to go outside to go on the patio or redoing. I potted up some houseplants last
weekend, Mike. The nitropos jungle land is excellent for that. It drains well, but it also holds water and that's very important. If you go out in Kingwood at the Ice Hardware Store, you can find it there. Absolutely you can find it. There are shades of Texas down on Genoa Red Bluff kind of southeast Houston. They carry it there as well as out in Angleton at Lake Hardware in Angleton. Excuse me, but quality soil is important. You hear me say all the time, brown stuff before green stuff.
I know it's a broken record, but it is so absolutely true. That is the I was going to say, is that the number one mistake, it is in the top five mistakes that people make when they try to grow things and don't have success, is the soil, the lack of preparation. You know, you go to a garden center and you find this beautiful plant full of ballooms in a container, and you just imagine it in your landscape. You take it home and you PLoP the plant in an unprepared plot.
Say that three times fast, and it just sit there or it declines, and it's because the soil is horrible. It may be a clay that doesn't drain well, or you know, you got to build your soil first. Make that plant ready to go, and it'll hit the ground running when you take care of your soil. That's true of house plant soils, so mixes, that's true of containers outside, that's true of the landscape beds. And
one of the easiest ways to get into garden. Maybe you thought about vegetable gardening and you haven't you just haven't, you know, pull the trigger on it, put a box on the ground, fill it full of a quality veggie nerb mix like heirloom soauce has, for example, and then right after it's done, you're rate of plant and you have absolute success. You're not banging your teeth loose with a rototiller as you're bouncing along hard clay soils.
You're just putting a box on top of it all and it makes it really easy. But why is it easy. It's because the soil is absolutely wonderful for the plants that you're wanting to grow. Soil soil, soil that's lots of microbial activity, soil that drains well, but also soil that can hold some excess moisture very important. That is one of the top secrets to success is make sure when the plant gets there, you've already prepared for success with
the soil. You do it the other way around. I can't help you. I mean, it is what it is, and you just kind of have to live with it or pull up the plant start all over it. Well, we don't have to do that. You're listening to guardline. We're about to take a little break at the top of the hour. Here we got another hour in the books today. Our phone number is seven one three
two point two fifty eight seventy four. At ten o'clock when this show ends, I am making a bee line for Siena mulchis second annual Spring Fling. It's from ten am to two pm today. They're gonna have a lot of great folksure I'll be there. They will have Jay White from Texas Gardener magazine, a lot of reps from the companies like Airloom Soils and Medina for example,
and now some plant food. We'll all be there. They'll be giving away a palet, a palette of landscaper's pride to some very fortunate person. They're gonna have a food truck out there. Bring me some plants to look at and photos or sample and I'll be giving away oh oh, probably eight or so products. Katrh Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services advertise it's on this program. Welcome to Katie r. H Garden
Line with Scamp Richter's Mill, the Crazy Gas Trip. Just watch him as gas so many do takes the soup backs, gass, the clubs back chickens, not a sound glass and gas the sun bemon of tweet. Welcome back to garden Line, looking forward to visiting with you today. Uh. You know, when it comes to gardening, there are so many different things we can talk about, but one of my favorite things to talk about is the
garden centers that we have. It. Listen, those of you who live in the Greater Houstonnario, you you may not know just how fortunate you are. I've been all over to Texas, I've been to other states. I always have to check out a garden center everywhere I go. I've never seen a place with this many quality garden centers. And one of the best places you're going to go is Enchened Forests down in Richmond. You walk in there
and I love the scene. I love the buildings, I love the setting, the shade trees, and the plants, and it just goes on and on and on, herbs and vegetables and flowers. They re specialize in pollinators butterfly plants, for example. They've got an excellent selection of that. They can cover your pollinator garden and they know what they're talking about. It educated
folks about plants and how to have success. So you come out and you just enjoy pretty much a choice of whatever you need and someone who can point you to the right thing. They constantly are getting in new things, always getting in new things. By the way, Chended Forest is on FM twenty seven fifty nine, So if you're heading from Richmond to sugar Land, for example, it's off to the right FM twenty seven fifty nine. Go by
there and check out what's happening. There's always something going on, always something going on there at Enchanted Forests. And I promise you you will be very impressed. Do you need color, color beds, color shrubs. They've got it at Enchanted Forest. I'm just really impressed with the things that they have put together. Always a nice, nice collection of things. Let's go to ray Out in Katie to start off the r HUD. Right, Good morning,
Escape morning, Good morning. I just had a question. I have cabbages in my garden and I bought some mosquito net, you know, the really tiny, tiny mosquito net. Yes, trying to prevent the bugs. But there's still there's still holes in my in the leaves of the of the plants, some of the plants. What can I do to prevent that. I was thinking about getting even some lady bugs, but then the lady bugs will fly will fly away. Yeah, what can I use for that?
Okay, So if you put cabbage out and before the caterpillars get in there to start eating holes in it, you cover it with that fine screen mesh, that will keep them out. But so if you have them underneath that mesh, and you have the mesh sealed aro on the side so something can't fly underneath it, then you're gonna have to lift off the mesh and spray them with one of two products either bt BE as in boy teas and tom
that's a caterpillar killer. It only lasts about a day out there in the environment, and then you know, so a week later you may need to spragg and just watch for the appearance of new holes. That means you need to spray. You got to get it on the foliage. So I would use some sort of a spread or sticker to put it in there with the
mix to make it stick to the foliage a little better. Because cabbage leaves, the spray rolls right off and big old it balls up on the water, beads up on the plant and rolls off spinosid s p I n O s A D. Spinosid's another one for that, and then just hand picking. Sometimes I'll go through my plants and turn them over and find the caterpillars and smash them. Uh, that's tedious, but that is also in the group of options that you have. Okay, so it will be it will
be a bug that I can see. It'll be a caterpillar, but it'll be the same color as the cabbage, so it's hard. They can hide if you're not looking carefully, and they're all always underneath the leaves. Okay, Okay, beautiful, good, you bet, you bet appreciate that. When you're watering in new plants. Now it's spring for crying out lead. You need to be planting stuff well has to grow six twelve six from medina.
You need some of that. You put it in. I put mine in a watering can, mix it according to the label, and drench in the new transplants with hash to grow six twelve six, and then a week later, do it again, a week later, do it again. Those three applications over two weeks helps the root system get off to a really good start. It's got medina sol activator, and it's got a humic acid in it. It even has seaweed extracts in It has to grow six twelve six
from Medina. And by the way, Andy from Medina will be down at Cienamulch today with me and the other gang down there and we'll be giving away a number of the Medina products, so you don't want to miss that. Let's now head out to southwest Houston and talk to John. Hello, John, Hi, stay skeepe. How you doing today? I'm good, sir. What's up in passing? Let's see. No, you're in southwest Houston, Okay, southwest Sustina. Have two questions. Trust eggplants week holes in
them? Leaves? Yes? And then the second question is I had a you know, a papia plant last year and he died this winter. And I noticed that on the stump above the ground they have several shoots. What should I Should I pick out some of those shoots or should I just leave it to grow until to see which one is viable? You can wait a little while, Yeah, you can wait a little while, but don't wait too long and just take the ones you're not going to choose, and it'll
be back in business pretty quick. The root system didn't freeze, and apparently a little bit of the top at the base didn't freeze, so you ought to be good. The eggplant with holes, John, that is a flea beetle. It's a little tiny beetle and they jump like fleas can hop, and so it's kind of hard to find them, but they're there. You're going to need to use if you can find it. Now, this is not easy to find. But if you can find a type of BT that's
not caterpillar type. But the type of BT is called San Diego, like the city in California, San Diego and Diego San Diego BT will control leaf feeding beetles. Now, that is an organic option. It's probably going to be hard to find. The other type of thing to use is spinosid s P I N O S A D. It comes in many different brands. It seems like every menu, you know, every company on the shelf at the garden center has a version of spinosid. But spinosid soaks in the tissues
and it kills things that she leaves. So there you go, all right, thank you, yes, thanks so much. I appreciate I appreciate you call very much. Hey, Verdant Tree Farm. I was telling you about them earlier. The website Verdant Treefarm dot com. Three locations in West easton Barker, Cypress, I ten and Yale in the Heights area, and down in Paarland on Broadway Street. They can fix you up. They have the right palm for any budget that you might have. You can go in sit
down in the office with them. It's free for a design consultation. So they're not going to draw it a big, you know, architecture type design plant. But what they'll do is they'll sit there and look at your pictures or your landscape or maybe a layout and say, well, this tree would go well here, or that tree would go well there or whatever. They'll help you with that to find the right palm tree for you, or the right of any kind of tree for you. They offer a one year warranty
with installation veer Dant Treefarm dot com. Really easy. Take a little break here. When we come back, Tom and Sandy, you'll be the first up on no other radio show. Can you hear music like that? Yodeling chickens? Wow? You can thank me later. We're gonna go to Cyprus. And talk to Sandy. Hello, Sandy, how are you this morning? I have a couple of questions. One of them is, well,
gentlemen, before the break already passed you the question about the holes? But how do I know when the beetles are completely gone because I sprayed them. My leaves are looking good on my bell peppers and my eggplants, they're looking good. Okay, but just watch for new holes and remember thus plants can
take a significant loss of leaves before it affects them significantly. So just because someone has a hole in a leaf, and I know that that's not what you're describing, but just because you see some leaf missing doesn't mean you have a crisis. One time years ago, I'll never forget this. They did a study on green bean plants bush beans, how many leaves do we have to pull off a bush bean plant before it affects production? And it was
like forty percent the leaves before they saw a significant drop. Now, so I guess that's just just say eh, a few a few holes here. Don't don't panic. We don't have to spray everything we see out there. But I think you'll probably be okay if you've done the treatment. Just just watch for a lot of new holes appearing. Okay, one more question my blueberry plant when I pune it, because I puned it during the free last year, a lot of the branches were dead and so I cut them,
and I've got some new green branches coming up. But the but the dead ones, how do I get those? Like? Do I cut them all the way down to the soil or how do I do that? Well? You cut out anything that's dead. That's for sure is how long have you had this blueberry? Just a year? A year? Okay? So as the plant gets older, we say blueberry shoots or canes coming out of the bottom. They are on about a five year life cycle, and then we prune them, they'll live longer. But if you remove any one way to
look at is remove one fifth of all of them each year. But you're not you still have several years to go before you hit that stage. Right now, I would just focus on fertilizing and watering it to get good growth and anything that was dead. Cut it all as far back as the living tissues. If you scrape them with the finger nail and you see green, well, then you don't have to cut further back than that okay, all right. And the strawberries or strawberries acid living for they micro Life six kind
of thing. What was the first product you said? Are they acid blueberry? Oh? Yes, well no, they can take they can take acid or they're they're fairly giving something anywhere around neutral is going to be okay with them. There's no problem with fertilizing it with a like a Microlife pink bag, which is acidic. But if you just want to use the green bag, that's fine too. They'll be fine on that. Just work whatever you apply like that. Those organic fertilizers, you want to work them into the
soil surface. Don't just let them sit on top in a garden. If you can mulch over them or work them in the soil surface, I think that's a little bit better. Okay, yes, all you too, Thank you very much. Appreciate that, Paul. Birds go with gardening. Do you know that birds many things go with gardening? The sound of water, the sound of birds, wa birds unlimited. They have you set up right now we're talking about the ruby throated hummingbirds coming through. They're going to be
heading up further north. This is just kind of a stopping off point for them. Get your hummingbird feeders out there. It is nesting season for a lot of birds. So whether it's bluebirds or pretty much any kind of bird you're going to have you're attracting the yard, you need to feed them a high quality feed because this isn't just bird seed time. This is high quality protein and the fats that you're going to find in things like sunflowers and peanuts
and dried mealworms and bark, butter and safflower. All of that is compacted into a nesting super blend by wild birds unlimited. The nesting super blend is superfood for the birds. It gets them ready for the nesting, It helps them taking care of their young when they're growing up. That's important. And those birds are out there catching bugs too. That's a huge part of their food supply for a young group of birds being raised what do they call them
fledglings. WBU dot com Forward slash Houston. WBU dot Com Forward slash Houston. That's the only place that I've seen that carries those high quality specialized super blend and other bird seed mixes where you get every bit of the bird seed you planted into the bird. A lot of those. The birds don't like the red babies. They kick it out on the ground. Yes, that was cheaper feed when you bought it, but when you look at how many pounds of bird food did you get, it's not cheaper feed. Go with
a quality mix from all birds unlimited. We're going to now go out to Jersey Village and talk to George. Hello George, good morning, skiff. How are you doing today. I'm well, I made a big mistake. I just got some Korean squash. It's a summer squash, about the size of a softball, and when I planted it, I poured some rootstarter and now I didn't realize it was a condensed version, and I should have put like two tea spoons per gallon, and I got the whole thing in there.
So is there a way I can rescue the plants? They should be okay, just giving them a good slashing of water kind of rinse it out of the system a little bit. But I think there. I don't know exactly what products you use, but I think in general they're probably going to be just fine. Okay, are you a new present days today? At the wherever we are? Remember where you are to that game remember I'm going to be at Ciena Maltch down South. Yeah, I won't be doing a
presentation. This is an outdoor event with tables and things and food trucks and all kinds of stuff. But people come by and we just eye to eye, one on one. They bring samples, bring pictures. Okay, yeah, how about tomorrow, You're can do the same thing tomorrow. I will not be doing that. No, not tomorrow. Okay, all right, thanks very much. GIP somewhere pretty much every weekend, but not on Sunday. Thank you. Okay, thanks again. I appreciate you giving me a
call. Those of you you hear me bragging about our garden centers here in the Houston area. Well for those of you really all over town, but especially down kind of southwest direction Seabrook. You know that area. Moss Nursery is your local garden center. And I know people that drive there from a long distance because they recognize my Moss Nursery is not just another garden center. I mean it is a place where you're going to find really cool stuff.
I was just looking the other day. I got a picture from the folks there, and they had some beautiful plants, but in the background, there's just like a little totem of carved wood with a face in it, and it's just it's eight acres. People, you walk around eight acres. I've never seen a houseplant collection like they have. Do you want hanging baskets? They've got that, veggies and herbs, Yeah, of course they got that.
A while back. They got some new shipments of cacti. In fact, there's the trucks line up are pretty much up morning to bring in new shipments of things. Do you want a microlife fertilizer While you're in there, remember take care of the brown stuff? Well, they've got that my favorite spring tree, Chinese French tree. They've got that Texas Mountain Lord. I mean, I could just go on all day. Moss Nursery is down in Seabrook on Toddville Road. Here's the website Maas Nursery dot com. Maas Nursery
dot com. You need to go see it. That's the bottom I can describe it, but you need to go see it. Allow yourself some time to walk through and begin to take it all in, because it's almost impossible to take everything in because there's so much cool stuff going on. Let's go down to Crystal Beach and talk to Tom. Now, Hello, Tom, good morning. Crystal Beach is an easy place for things to grow. And I have an award winning looking lemon bush in a five gallon bucket that right
now has hundreds of blossoms on it, and same as last year. Last year, they all fell off and I only got one lam uh huh. What am I doing wrong? Is it the wind that blows them off? Or what? Okay, how long has it been in the container for about three years? Okay? Well, anything that stresses the tree during the bloom and post bloom is going to potentially cause fruit drop. Overloading of blooms that the citrus tree is going to produce more blooms than it can develop fruit,
and so it has to cast some of them off. But a stress like getting dry for just a short time, the container not being well watered, a soggy wet, the holes in the bottom of the container aren't draining properly, those are all stresses of it. I don't think the wind is a big issue, but it definitely any other kind of a little stress would be a contributor to that. Oh well, it happens every year. Yeah, I mean every year, and the plant is beautiful. It's not stressed in
any way as far as the plant goes, and I water it. I water it regularly, Yeah, along with everything else. But it is the only thing. My onions, my carrots, everything else grow like crazy. Well, let's watch the excess nitrogen in it too. Fertilizing quite a bit. It promotes a lot of vegetative growth, but it's not the best thing to do for good fruit set and development. About fertilizing not enough, You would see that your tree wouldn't be growing and looking good. It would just
kind of be sitting there, not putting on new growth. The leaves would be turning yellow somewhere on the plant, and so that I don't it doesn't sound like that's what's going on there. Okay, one more quick question, fleas in the yard? What would I what do it? Would I spray in the yard for fleas? Tom I would go to your narrostase hardware store
and ask them that question. You're gonna want to use an insect growth regulator that is labeled for outside use or even indoors if you have the problem, and you definitely want to go to the vet and get that little oily stuff they put you put up on the top of their haunches behind their head. That gets into the pet and kills any flea that tries to chew on the pet. Yeah, one or the other. I have that. That war great. Yeah, so so just now go out and treat the yard.
Go to ace Hardbro, tell them what you got. Get something you can put in a hose in sprayer because you got a wet not just the leaves of the plant, but you got to get that spray done in the thatch where the the fleas are hiding and developing. Uh hey, I've got to run. I'm against a heartbreak here for the news, but good luck with getting that under control. Our phone number here if you like to call seven one three two one two kt R H and Jim. Uh no, let's
see here. We've got somebody else coming up, but you'll be the first up. Welcome back to guard Line. What do we want to talk about today? You tell me. I'm going to start by heading out to Pearland and we're going to talk to Jim. Hello, Jim, Hey, good morning, Skip almost asking about fuselage that you spoke earlier today. I've got a flower bed that has a lot of grass in it, And I was just wondering if I used that something that had that product in it, would
it affect the other plants. I've got some rose bushes and some other things, other annual flowers in there, but i also got a lot of grass. It's got you to pick out, got you? Uh, it's actually a few salade lade Uh. It in general just kills grasses, but follow the label. The label will tell you if there's any other closely related plants that it could damage, so so be careful with it. If I Fusiladed is a brand name, but you may find it on the shelves as fusilaide.
You may also find a different chemical that does the same thing. Grass only killer. Uh. And it is the ingredient begins with the boys name Seth s E t H. I won't spell the whole thing out. It's the only grass killer that begins. The ingredient begins with Seth s ct H. Either of those will help clear grass out of a flower bed. A brand product off the shelf that would have that in there, just you know, off the top of your head, I just I just don't know.
If you go on to a pair land A's hardware. They're going to have those there. They may have both of them now, I don't know, but just tell them you need a grass killer post emergent grass killer, and it's going to be one of those two things, the awesome thank you solid type stuff or the seth type stuff. Okay, thanks, appreciate that.
Let's see we are going to now go to Bill and Conroe. Hello, Bill, I skip question about funder side and till I'm not sure I know take all rootbrod is So is the one that comes in a circle or kind of a moon shaped? Is that brown patch? Typically? Yes, that's it's awesome. God it's called a large patch now, but yes, that's a large patch. Write that down. So I have got both, or I had both, and so I want to I'm a little late on treating
it. I guess at the beginning of spring, and I know you're supposed to do different kinds. I was looking at this code fourteen versus code three code eleven. So if I'm switching, how often should I switch every two weeks in the year? Is that correct? Well, you could do an application of one and then the next time you have to do that switch to a different class of fung a side if you can find. I want to give you two ingredients that do a pretty good job on the take all root
rot and then therefore they're going to help with the large patch too. But propaconasole is one. It's pr PI and then co n A z L E propacanasole and you'll find it in different brands. And then the other one is a zoxystroban that's going to be harder to find. There's a productol Heritage that has it in it, but it's very difficult to get a hold of a z x Y. Yeah you know where I found that one, in a product called Scott's Disease X. Yes, it isn't that. It isn't that.
Azoxystroban is better. Probably my first choice for take all root rot, but you've got to get it down at the right times. If you look at my schedule that's online at gardeningwith Skip dot com. Got it in front of me, okay, Well, you'll find in March is an optional take all root rot through early April. We're in that now and then the most important time though for takeoll is to do it in October and to repeat it
again in November with the azoxystrobin ingredient. And for large large patch, yes, can I should be treating that now too, Yeah, well yes you can. On the schedule, we actually start large patch treatments at the end
of January. If the hit lawn has had a history of those problems, if we get a lot of rainy, cool conditions, mild conditions, and especially if you've fertilized really early, you can see some more of the brown patch or large patch showing up. But if you've got the schedule trout there in front of you, and then it lists the products as you know, and it's got two different nitropots kinds of controls, like would alternate those two? You think, yes, yes, the nitrophos well, yes, the
total brown patch control and nitrophos Eagle are both going to work. Total patch control will be very effective against your brown patch or large patch, and then the Eagle also is going to be effective on those. So you got a number of options down there on those diseases. Those two that you just mentioned have are different classes. So that's why I like, yes using right and the Eagle is it's also listed on the take all root rock Control so it
also has efficacy. Good plan. See it there too. Okay, very good. I think I'm a square away here. A thank thank you. You're doing a good job with a very confusing topic, I know when we start talking about all these different products and things like that. Speaking of the nitrophoss, they're super turf. The silver bag that is a nineteen four to ten nineteen four ten. That bag has a type of nitrogen, has more
than one type of nitrogen in it. It's got a regular type that it would just release fairly soon, and then it's got a type that releases gradually over a period of time, so it extends the coverage. You don't have to do that every month. You can get two or three months out of the super turf. The silver bag nineteen four tenths also has iron to help out on that. Especially in the spring, we see a lot of the iron yellowing going on in the grass and it'll work well on that. You
can get it up in the woodlands at allspa Ace Hardware. You can get it a plant for all seasons on Highway two forty nine down up and Brunham over and Brunham whichever way. Brunham is Plants and things has the nitrophoss products like the super Turf, for example. I want to go now to Willis and we're going to talk to Mike. Hello, Micah, Hey, we get dross speakerphone. Okay, can you hear me now? Yes, okay, I have My question is I have one very matured freight myrtle in my
backyard. Huh. It has no I guess you would call like saplings or seedlings popping out of the ground. Has none of that. Okay. I have other freight myrtles in my yard, but they sprout all of these stems, yes, splash, yes, yeah. How do I stop that from
happening? Okay? When you get a new shoot coming up around the base of that shoot, or a bunch of buds that are hiding, they're sleeping, and if you cut that shoot off and leave about a half inch one inch stub, you're going to get a bunch of new shoots, and it just starts a process where you get more and more. I would go down there around the base and do some surgery, cut as close to where they attach as you can and remove them and then get a product that's called sucker
stopper because those are called suckers, say sold on. I got, I got my pen, I just dropped it. Okay, it's easy to remember because those are those are called suckers, and you're going to buy something called sucker stopper, follow the label and it will help reduce those. Now, nothing is going to eliminate them. I've noticed some crapes or worse about that than others. But the way we prune them improperly in removing the suckers is
part of the problem that we have. And also when is the proper time to basically prune them, because I see, you know, running through the woodlands and whatnot. Yeah, I see, they basically chop the top off of them, right, And so if you're driving around seeing stuff that landscape care companies do, that's probably not the practice you want to follow, just because for a number of reasons. But they butcher create myrtles and they shouldn't. The best time to prune them is at the end of the winter.
Okay, I'm going to have to go to a hard break here, but the end of winter is the time to get any kind of pruning you need to do done. Thank you for the call, Michael. We're going to take a break. We'll be right back. I bet a bunch of you went bump bump bomb. I don't know why we do that, but we like to do that. We're going to head out now to Ronnie in Lake Jackson. Hello, Running, I appreciate you taking my call this morning.
Listen calling. Garden was looking good two weeks ago and got really hammered by the hellstorm that came through our area. My question is this. You know, we talk all the time about our Usually I listened about the the roots not affected on a freeze. Sometimes they'll live through it. My question, if you had to guess, some of them are getting leaves coming back, and some of them just look still like they're beat the hell and back.
How long should it be before I start seeing new growth? Or in other words, if I'm not seeing new growth, eventually, I'm going back here with other plants. You said, how long do you think I should wait? Yeah, Ronnie, you said garden. Are we talking about a vegetable garden or what kind of plants? Vegetable garden? Yes, okay, you should see some new growth on most things within a week or so. It
ought to be showing a little bit of new growth. It depends on the extent of the damage and the specific plant, because you know it just something like let us is not going to respond the same as a tomato plant, for example, not doing there's nothing. Some of my tomato plants are showing a little bit of like you say, e leaks coming out on the bottom. Yeah, okay, yeah, well kind of wait and watch. It's
a little late to be starting over again with tomatoes. I mean you can, but you'd like to have had that early start that you already got. So I'd give it as much time as you could. I would say within a week. If you're not seeing some growth starting to come back, then I don't know. Hail can at the top of a plant, but there's gonna be buds that will push out still, even from around the base.
Yes, sir, that's what I'm getting. Like said, they just look like a little bit of pencil stalks now nothing on them, but getting a little bit of green. Those I think be fine. And like you say, said this late in the season, I don't know if it'd be work. I appreciate you saying that they didn't think about it. Yeah, I don't think they would have time to do anything before the heat hits. Well, it's good. It's not too late to plant tomatoes, it's just later
than I like to get them done. So if you want some good tomatoes, look for the fastest maturing varieties you can get and replant. If you need to. Cherry type tomatoes hold up better in the heat, so I would consider those for sure. Definitely, Yes, I appreciate it, Thanks sir. All right. Sorry to hear about that hailstorm. A lot of people got hit in certain areas up your direction, or really all through this region. It was real heat and mess, like hailstorms tend to be.
You hear me on garden line talk about products all the time. You know, I'm saying this fertilizer, that fertilizer, or you need to go buy this to kill a weed, or you hear me say that, Where do you go that has all of that and more and more and more. Well, that's Southwest Fertilizer. Southwest Fertilizer on the corner of Bismitt and Renwick in southwest Houston. If you walk in there, I want you to just start walking through up and down the aisles and look at what they have. I
mean, like weed control. I may tell you one thing. We'll go get such and such. Well, when you get there and you show Bob or Aaron or the staff there, here's a weed that I got in my yard. What can I use? Show them a picture, show them a sample, samples. Even better, they're going to take you and they're gonna have three or four options for that one particular treatment that you need. Do you need garden tools, Well, they have an eighty foot wall of garden
tools at Southwest Fertilizer. That's a good sized wall of garden tools. They have everything. I like to say. If they don't have it, you don't need it. A fertilizer spreader for the fertilizer, Yeah, they had that too. Do you like organic products, Oh my gosh, they have micro life, They've got Medina. They have an excellent selection on all that kind of thing. When I recommend something obscure, well, Bob's going to have it at Southwest Fertilizer. It's just as simple as that. It's real
easy. It's one stop shopping corner of Bisnatt and Runwick. The phone number if you don't give McCall seven to one three six six six one seven four four seven one three six sixty six one seven four four, or go to the website which is Southwest Fertilizer dot com Southwest Fertilizer dot com. Those if you up around Lake Conroe area, your backyard hometown garden center is a NA Plants and Produce. It's on the east side of Montgomery on one oh five,
uh so, just just barely on the outskirts of Montgomery. They're on one oh five. So if you live in any of those Late Conroe neighborhoods like April, sound like, well you know them all. There's there's a bunch of them up there. Maybe your garden beds aren't looking so great. Well. Ana Plants and Produce has an expert landscaping crew that can come out and do work race such as early cleanup, getting those home beds things cleaned
up. They can do that. Usually you'll find my schedules at the counter there at Ana Plants and Produce in Montgomery. But I tell you what, you also will find every fertilizer and related product for such as weed control that I recommend, both organic, both anthetic. You want some Nature's Way leaf mold compost, they've got it. You're looking for heirlooms, they've got it. Mean Ana plants and produce, make sure they stay stocked up. And
when it comes to color, that place looks great. You need to go by and see it. Warm season color. You need things for shade, you need things for sun A and a. Plants and produces got you set up. They absolutely just continue to get new stock and it just looks good. I love going into a garden. It's kind of like for me, Well they say a kid in a candy shop, that's kind of how I feel when I go into a garden center. Let me see what's new.
Every time I walk into one, I learned about some new plant that I hadn't even heard before. Been doing this thirty six years now, and I still hear about Well, new ones are developed too, so I guess there's that, But it just makes it a lot of fun to go and do that. We've talked about a lot of different things today, a lot of things, especially taking care of your yard. This is a time of the season when everybody is hey, il want green grass and need to get it
to wake up. Remember that wherever sunlight hits the soil, nature plants of weed. So when your lawn gets thinned, you will have weed problems. Seeds are lying dormant, or seeds come in however they come in from wind or whatever, and they come in, and then now we got a weedy. It's easier to prevent them than it is to control them after they sprout. But the number one goal, and this is on my schedule too, by the way, the number one go. In fact, I'm going to
read it to you right here, off the schedule. Here we go. Where is it? Where is it? Where is it? Okay, mow frequently with the sharp blade to build turf density. Remove about a third of the leap blade each time you mow. Return the clippings to recycle their complete balanced nutrient content. Lots of information that go to the other schedule, the lawn pest Disease and weed management schedule in red right in the big middle.
Before we even talk about weed prevention and weed killing existing weeds. The first and most important step in weed control is to build a dense, healthy turf over time through proper fertilizing, mowing, and watering. Remember, wherever sunlight hits the soil, nature plants a weed. There. You have it right there. We have products that can prevent weeds. We have products that can control weeds. But your number one weed control in your lawn is mow water
fertilized properly. You get off to a good start on that, and you're going to find that your weed problems are significantly reduced mow water and fertilized properly. Last summer, we didn't get the watering done. It was so darn hot for so long. Most irrigation systems are not very efficient. The coverage is not completely uniform. Well, so what do we do get that fixed? Make sure that you're getting good coverage and water with a good soaking on
an infrequent basis. We'll talk about that more when things heat up around here. But don't underestimate the power of low water and fertilized when it comes to weed controlled that live in a dense Saint Augustine, they can do that no matter how well you mow water and fertilize Virginia button weed, dollar weed, for example. But that's the exception. Most of the weeds are because we
have thin lawn and sunlight is allowed to reach the soil. I'm about to bolt out of this studio and head to see animals and what are we going to be doing well? I'm gonna be given away eight different products, including a lot by Medina, some heirloom soils, some asamite. There'll be a food truck, Jay from Texas Gardener will be there, a lot of the reps from Heirloom Soils and Nelson's and Medina are all going to be there to